Upbeat Songs

Action songs

• Gotta Get Up
• Hands Clap
• Heads, Shoulders, Knees & Toes
• Johnny Likes to Dance
• Little Arabella Miller
• Jumping Land
• Comin’Round the Mountain
• … and many more

Alphabet songs

• Alphabet Echo
• A Before B
• First Comes A
• Your ABC
• Marching Along
• Cool, School Rap
• Miss Sue from Alabama
• … and more

Animal songs

• Crocodile
• The Cat Came Back
• Horsey, Horsey
• Kookaburra
• Did You Feed My Cow?
• Caterpillar
• Beehive
• The Platypus
• … and so on

Celebration songs

• The Easter Hat Parade
• Auld Lang Syne
• Advance, Australia Fair
• I Still Call Australia Home
• Hava Nagilah
• It’s Your Birthday
• Once a Year
• Have a Happy Birthday
• … to name a few

Comedy songs

• Little English Sparrow
• Rheumatism
• Long-Legged Sailor
• Chester
• Noise
• Grandpa’s Jalopy
• Where’s the Car?
• The Cannibal King … and more

Dance songs

• Zoodio
• Miss Sue from Alabama
• My Dance
• I’ve Been to Harlem
• The Farmer in the Dell
• Punchinello
• Looby Loo
• The Shoemaker’s Dance … etc.

Echo songs

• Old Texas
• Skin
• Alphabet Echo
• Bill Groggin’s Goat
• Going On a Bear Hunt
• Che Che Koolay
• Chicken Pox … and so on

Environmental songs

• Who Looks After Our World?
• Whether the Weather
• Monsters
• Splish, Splash, Splosh
• Swim, Little Fish
• Take-Away Food
• The Farmer Feeds the Cow
• … and many more

Game songs

• New Orleans
• Copy Cat
• One Finger, One Thumb
• Postie, Postie
• Whoopsido!
• The Squirrel Rap
• Round and Round the Circle
• Who Stole the Cookie?
• … for a start

National songs

• Advance, Australia Fair
• Land of the Silver Birch
• Sakura
• Frere Jacques
• Ballad of the Kelly Gang
• Pokare Kare Ana … etc.

Number songs

• Alison’s Camel
• The Math Rap
• One Elephant in a Lift
• Two in a Boat
• The Seven Steps
• Ten Little Indians
• Five Grasshoppers
• Twenty-Four Hours
• … and a number more

Part(ner) songs & rounds

• Hey, Ho! Anybody Home?
• Ya Got Jazz
• Horsey, Horsey
• Drunken Sailor/O Sinner Man
• The Instruments
• Sing a Harmony
• The Cuckoo
• One Bottle O’ Pop
• Old Time Jazz … etc.

Raps

• The Goldilocks Rap
• Halloween Rap
• The Bug Spray Rap
• The Alphabet Rap
• Miss Lucy Had a Baby
• Miss Tippy Toppy
• The Zombie Rap
• The Video Rap … and more!

Scary songs

• It Scares Me
• The Zombie Rap
• Queen Nefertiti
• In a Dark, Dark Wood
• Skin and Bones
• A Ghost in the Pantry
• There Was an Old Witch … etc.

Traditional tales (and mini-musicals)

• Cinderella
• The Four Musicians
• Off to Squintums
• Three Billy Goats Gruff
• Pinocchio
• The Three Little Pigs
• The Sleeping Princess
• Robots and Androids
• When Goldilocks Went to the
• House of the Bears … etc.

The Upbeat Class(ics)

Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Ravel, Tchaikowsky, Brahms, Stravinsky, etc.

Music of the World

Indian, Japanese, Australian Aboriginal, African, etc.

And many contemporary styles

rock, rap, reggae, jazz, blues, folk, theatre, film, techno, etc.