Folk Songs

Content

• Description of folk songs
• Western folk songs
• Nigerian folk songs.

Content development

Folk songs are the traditional songs of a people. Most Nigerian folk songs are mainly involved in folktales. All ethnic groups in Nigeria have folktales which children enjoy during moonlight plays and games. They sing folk songs in call and response sytle, and sometimes perform the actions which involved in the folktales.

Western folk songs

Below are some western folk songs:

1. Baa, Baa, Black Sheep
2. Auld Lang Syne
3. Early One Morning
4. Golden slumbers
5. The Ash Grove
6. My Bonnie
7. All through the night
8. Pretty polly Oliver, and so on.

Nigerian Folk Songs

Here also are some Nigerian folk songs which students sing in communities:

1. Udaram Too (Igbo)
2. Nwaneku Nwa (Igbo)
3. Zamiliza (Igbo)
4. Inine (Igbo)
5. Uli Oma (Igbo)
6. Ise Oluwa (yoruba)
7. Alanteere o (yoruba)
8. Baba lawo mo wa bebe (yoruba)
9. Taguwar (hausa)
10. Mo Bele (Ijaw: Okrika)

     Exercise:

 Call:  Alanteere o.

 Response: Antere

 Call :  Baba ni ki nbomile sanra

Response: Antere

Call:  Iya nirodo lowe

Response: Antere

Call : Mododo mo bo`luweri

Response: Antere

Call: Okan diti okan yaro

Response: Antere

Call: Okan abese gbon in

Response: Antere

Call: Be ba dele o,

Response: Antere

Call: keki baba fun mi

Response: Antere

Call: beba dele o

Response: Antere

Call: keki mama fun mi

Response: Antere

Call: wipe odoju ala o

Response: Antere

Call: Ka o si to rira

Response: Antere

Call: A o fipade se somo

Response: Antere

Evaluation

1.  Describe folk songs.
2. List some western and Nigerian folk songs.
3. Sing some western and Nigerian folk songs. 

Reference

Fundamentals of Music, for junior secondary schools, Upper Basic Education 1, Dr.H.C. Nwafor.