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FOLK SONGS
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- Description of Folk Songs
- Western Folk Songs
- Nigerian Folk Songs
Description of Folk Songs
Folk songs are the traditional songs of a people. Most Nigerian folk songs are mainly used 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 style, and sometimes perform the actions which involved in the folktales.
Western Folk Songs
Below are some western folk songs:
Baa, Baa, Black Sheep
Auld Lang Syne
Early One Morning
Golden Slumbers
The Ash Grove
My Bonnie
All Through the Night
Pretty Polly Oliver, and so on.
Nigerian Folk Songs
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