Cumulative songs

"The Twelve Days of Christmas" is an English Christmas carol and nursery rhyme. A classic example of a cumulative song, the lyrics detail a series of increasingly numerous gifts given to the speaker by their "true love" on each of the twelve days of Christmas. The carol, whose words were first published in England in the late eighteenth century, has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 68. A large number of different melodies have been associated with the song, of which the best known is derived from a 1909 arrangement of a traditional folk melody by English composer Frederic Austin.

traditional children's song

French-Canadian folk song

16th‐century Jewish song

2012 single by Morgana Giovannetti

simple song form with repetitive and linked verses, prolonged little by little between them

Piyyut

children's song

thumb|upright=1.1|Schnitzelbanksong The "Schnitzelbank" is a simple song, popular primarily with German Americans.

song

song written and composed by Julius La Rosa and Archie Bleyer, originally recorded by Julius La Rosa in 1953

British nursery rhyme