Older Generation (65+):
Bill Bailey
Let me Call You Sweetheart
Down by the Old Mill Stream
*Shine on Harvest Moon
*Daisy, Daisy (Bicycle Built for Two)
Side by Side
Show tunes: Sunny Side of the Street, Try to Remember, As Time Goes By, etc
Singalongs (Almost) Everyone Knows:
You Are My Sunshine
Row Row Row Your Boat
Make New Friends (but Keep the Old)
This Land Is Your Land
Dream, Dream, Dream
Michael Row the Boat Ashore
Home on the Range
Day-O
Show tunes: Somewhere Over the Rainbow, O’ What a Beautiful Mornin’, Summertime
Children’s Songs :
Baby Beluga
Barney Theme Song (formerly known as This Old Man)
Froggie Went a Courtin’
Goin’ to the Zoo
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
Eensy Weeensy (Itsy Bitsy) Spider
How Much is that Doggie in the Window?
*Oh Susannah
*Old MacDonald Had a Farm
The Teddy Bears’ Picnic
*The Wheels on the Bus
Religious Songs:
*Amazing Grace
*Down by the Riverside
In the Garden
He-ne-ma-tov-u-ma-na-eem (Jewish)
*Will the Circle be Unbroken
I’ll Fly Away
*Angels Watchin’ Over Me
*He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands
*I Saw the Light
Old Hippie Favorites (for Baby Boomers, 50s & 60s music):
*Blowin’ in the Wind
Blackbird, With a Little Help from my Friends, Let it Be (or anything Beatles)
Scarborough Fair/Sounds of Silence
Get Together
Poison Ivy
Moon River
*Helplessly Hoping
*If I Had a Hammer
*Peaceful Easy Feelin’ (or other Eagles)
You’ve Got a Friend (or other Carole King)
Sweet Baby James (or other James Taylor)
*Mustang Sally
*My Girl (other Motown, R & B)
Twist and Shout
Country/Western:
*Jambalaya
Your Cheatin’ Heart
*Mountain Dew
*Country Roads Take me Home
*My Grandfather’s Clock
Keep on the Sunny Side
*New River Train
*Old Joe Clark
Long Black Veil
Man of Constant Sorrow
Red River Valley
The Tennessee Waltz
Ethnic Songs:
Edelweiss
Frere Jacques
*Jamaica Farewell
Shalom Chaverim
Erev Shel Sho sha nim
Kookabura
*Kumbaya
*Tie Me Kangaroo Down
Cockles and Mussels
Funiculi Funicula
*Cielito Lindo
La Bamba
Sakura
Tumbalalaika
* denotes good for group singalong, easy to make up new words or extra verses to, etc.
Sometimes you might need to change a word here or there—use your intuition!