Fun & Punk
74 energetic nursery rhymes — the fun and punk collection is the biggest in the set. Silly, fast, and utterly irresistible for children of all ages.
74 songs
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Humpty Dumpty
The great fall that no one could undo — not even all the King's men
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Jack and Jill
Up the hill they went for water — and down they came again
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London Bridge Is Falling Down
Falling down, falling down — and rebuilt with everything from straw to stone
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Mary Had a Little Lamb
Everywhere that Mary went, the lamb was sure to go
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One Finger, One Thumb
Keep moving! The happiest cumulative action song in the nursery
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Ring a Ring o' Roses
The singing game that isn't about the plague
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The Wheels on the Bus
The classic action song with wheels, wipers, horns and a crying baby
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What Shall We Do With the Grumpy Pirate?
A pirate version of the drunken sailor song — make him smile, wobble the plank, tickle him
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A-Tisket, A-Tasket
Made famous by Ella Fitzgerald — a timeless playground favourite
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Aiken Drum
The man in the moon made entirely of food
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B-I-N-G-O (Bingo Was His Name-O)
There was a farmer had a dog, and Bingo was his name-o!
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Bananas In Pyjamas (Medley)
B1 and B2 — the most famous pyjama-wearing bananas in the world
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Chick Chick Chicken
A brilliantly silly 1920s music hall song demanding an egg for tea
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Dingle Dangle Scarecrow
The action song where a floppy scarecrow comes hilariously to life
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Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed
The irresistible bedtime countdown with bouncing monkeys and a very patient doctor
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Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush
A ring-game song about morning routines on a cold and frosty day
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Hickety, Pickety, My Black Hen
A black hen who lays eggs for the gentlemen every day
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Hokey Cokey
Put your whole self in — that's what it's all about
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Looby Loo
Here we go looby loo — all on a Saturday night
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Miss Polly Had a Dolly
The doctor came with his bag and his hat — and knocked with a rat-a-tat-tat
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Pat a Cake, Pat a Cake, Baker's Man
One of the oldest nursery rhymes in print — still clapping
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Round and Round the Garden
One step, two step — tickle time!
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Rub a Dub Dub
Three men in a tub and a series of increasingly poor decisions
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She'll Be Coming Round the Mountain
Coming round the mountain in pink pyjamas on six white horses
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Shoo Fly
Shoo fly, don't bother me — I belong to somebody
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Simple Simon
No penny, no pie — and a very unfortunate fisherman
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Ten Green Bottles
Hanging on the wall, and accidentally falling one by one
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The Big Ship Sailed
Ally-ally-oh — on the last day of September
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The More We Get Together
The more we get together, the happier we'll be
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There Was an Old Woman Who Swallowed a Fly
The cumulative tale of increasingly unfortunate dietary choices
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Sleeping Bunnies
Shhh — the bunnies are sleeping. Ready to hop!
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The Pirate Song
When I was one to ten, a pirate captain's life for me
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The Skeleton Dance
Them bones them bones them dancing bones — connect the skeleton and dance
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This Is the House That Jack Built
The classic cumulative rhyme that grows verse by verse from malt to farmer
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A Sailor Went To Sea Sea Sea
The classic hand-clapping song every playground knows
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Alice The Camel
A counting-down camel with a surprising twist at the end
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Animal Alphabet
A to Z — every letter gets its own animal friend
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Animal Fair
The funniest day at the fair you've never actually attended
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Apples And Bananas
A silly vowel-swapping song that turns eating into a language game
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Ba, Be, Bi, Bo, Bu
Five vowel sounds, endless laughs — a phonics song for little voices
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Beanbag, Beanbag
Throw it, catch it, balance it — the song that gets everyone moving
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Clap Your Hands Together
A simple, joyful action song for very young children
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Cobbler Cobbler Mend My Shoe
A satisfying rhythmic rhyme from the age of handmade shoes
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Desperate Dan
A comic verse celebrating the gloriously scruffy fictional hero of The Dandy
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Ding Dong Bell
The cautionary cat-in-the-well rhyme with a surprisingly ancient history
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Do Your Ears Hang Low
The wonderfully silly ear-waggling song every child knows and loves
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Down in the Jungle Boogie
A groovy jungle action song with a great big gorilla doing the laundry
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Eeny Meeny Miny Moe
The ancient counting-out rhyme used by children the world over to decide who goes first
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Five Currant Buns
The classic countdown counting song set in a baker's shop
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Five Fat Sausages
The satisfyingly explosive counting-down song with a sizzle and a bang
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Ging Gang Goolie
The nonsense camp-fire song composed by Baden-Powell himself in 1907
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Go to Sleep You Baby
A tender lullaby with a gently surprising twist in its delivery
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Goldilocks and the Three Bears
The beloved counting and story song about porridge, chairs, and a very nosy little girl
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Goosey, Goosey Gander
A goose wanders the house and throws an old man down the stairs
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Horsey, Horsey
A gentle clip-clop song about the journey homeward bound
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I Had a Cat
A cumulative song of farmyard animals, each adding their own sound
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I'm the King of the Castle
Climb to the top and declare yourself ruler — until someone pushes you off
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In and Out the Dusty Bluebells
A weaving ring game through arches of children's arms
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It's Raining, It's Pouring
The old man is snoring — three rainy-day rhymes combined in one lively recording
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Jack Sprat
One eats no fat, the other eats no lean — together they clean the plate
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Jelly on a Plate
Wibble wobble, wibble wobble — a wiggly song about food
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Little White Duck
Sitting in the water doing what he oughter — the happiest duck in the pond
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Mah Nà Mah Nà
Mah nà mah nà — the song that doesn't mean anything and means everything
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Nicky Nacky Nocky Noo
Put your hand on yourself — a body-part song with a silly refrain
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Oh! Susanna
I come from Alabama with my banjo on my knee — don't you cry for me
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Pease Pudding Hot
Hot or cold, nine days old — pease pudding for everyone
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Peter Rabbit
A fly on his nose and a fine pair of floppy ears
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The Farmer's in His Den
The farmer wants a wife, the wife wants a child — and the dog wants a bone
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The Jumping Song
Jump, jump, jump, jump — jump around now!
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There Was a Princess Long Ago
The Sleeping Beauty story told in song — princess, tower, forest and prince
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There Were Ten in a Bed
Ten in a bed and the little one says roll over — until there's just one left
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There's a Worm at the Bottom of the Garden
Wiggly Woo the worm and Slippery Sue the snail live at the bottom of the garden
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Waltzing Matilda
Australia's most beloved folk song — the swagman, the jumbuck and the billabong
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What Are Little Boys Made Of?
Snips and snails for boys, sugar and spice for girls — the classic rhyme extended
About This Collection
The largest collection in the Nursery Rhymes Collections, and arguably the most exuberant. Seventy-four songs recorded with irrepressible energy, irreverence, and a refusal to take themselves too seriously — which is, when you think about it, exactly the spirit that nursery rhymes have always had.
While the songs in this collection are not Punk in the strict musical sense, they share an attitude of gleeful disrespect for convention — and some of them are gloriously over the top in the best possible way. These are the songs to do the actions to, to party to: dance, jump, shout and scream, getting as wild as children are supposed to be from time to time. "One Man Went to Mow," "She'll Be Coming Round the Mountain," "If You're Happy and You Know It," "The Grand Old Duke of York" — songs that demand participation, that get louder with each verse, that are more fun the more chaotic they become.
The musicians at Comfy Towers Studios clearly enjoyed making these recordings. That enjoyment is audible in every track, and children invariably pick up on it immediately.