folk songs

• plural

  plural

  The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.

  of folk song.
  folk song

  noun

  a song originating among the people of a country or area, passed by oral tradition from one singer or generation to the next, often existing in several versions, and marked generally by simple, modal melody and stanzaic, narrative verse.

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folk songs

Belafonte began singing at downtown nightclubs with a repertoire of Caribbean folk songs adopted from the Greenwich Village music scene.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

The series’ musical landscape also includes a myriad of folk songs, such as the drunken tavern tune “Alice With Three Fingers” and the childish rhyming couplets of “The Hammer and the Anvil.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026

Born in June 1943 in Pannaipuram, Tamil Nadu, as R Gnanathesikan, Ilaiyaraaja was raised on the folk songs and ballads sung by his father, a cardamom estate supervisor.

From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2026

Outside the hall, musicians played folk songs on a small stage.

From Barron's ● Apr. 11, 2026

The Kodály Song Web contains hundreds of American and other folk songs from around the world, as well as musical information on every song to help teachers learn and teach them.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

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