This is a list of songs that are funny or just plain fun to sing a variety of settings whether on a long car ride, sitting around a campfire, or just goofing off with friends or loved ones. A lot of us remember singing these songs together growing up.
Here are chapters where you may find some of these songs in Rise Up Singing:
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Rounds
Here are chapters where you can find some silly songs in Rise Again:
Funny Songs
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You can also check out the genre of parodies
Some of our favorite silly songs in Rise Up Singing:
Aikendrum
Be Kind to Your Four-Footed Friends
Be Prepared by Tom Lehrer
Beans in My Ears by Len Chandler
Black Socks (round)
The Brandy Tree by Gordon Bok
The Cat Came Back
A Chat with Your Mother (The F-word Song) by Lou & Peter Berryman
The Chickens Get Into the Tomatoes (spoken round)
Down by the Bay
Gibberish (round)
Hole in the Bucket
A Horse Named Bill
John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt
The Merry Minuet (They’re Rioting in Africa) by Sheldon Harnack
Old Time Religion (filksong version)
On Ilkley Moor Baht T’at
Irish Ballad (Rickety Tickety Tin) by Tom Lehrer
On Top of Spaghetti by Tom Glazer
Peanut Butter
Pollution by Tom Lehrer
Put Your Finger in the Air by Woody Guthrie
The Rooster Song (I had a rooster, no eggs would she lay...)
Rooty Toot Toot for the Moon by Greg Brown
Rubber Blubber Whale by Si Kahn
There’s a Hole at the Bottom of the Sea
Throw It Out the Window
To Stop the Train (round)
Waltzing with Bears
Yellow Submarine by the Beatles
Some of our favorite silly songs in Rise Again include:
Always Look on the Bright Side of Life by Monty Python
Apples & Bananas
Best Day Ever by SpongeBob SquarePants
Dear Abby by John Prine
Dem Deer by Lou & Peter Berryman
59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin’ Groovy) by Paul Simon
Fish Heads by Barnes & Barnes
From a Dog’s Stance (parody of From a Distance) by Jay Mankita
Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah by Allan Sherman
Little Bird, Little Bird (Elizabeth Mitchell, Mike Seeger, Peggy Seeger)
Mr. Rabbit as sung by Pete Seeger
My Aunt Came Back (song with motions)
Pancake Hat by Sara Pirtle (tune "Turkey in the Straw")
Pharoah, Pharoah (parody of Louise, Louie)
Quinn the Eskimo (the Mighty Quinn) by Bob Dylan, performed by Manfred Mann
Scalloped Potatoes (round)
Sensitive New-Age Guys by Christine Lavin
Star Trekking across the Universe by The Firm
Swingin’ on a Star
Tip-toe through the Tulips performed by Tiny Tim
The Vatican Rag by Tom Lehrer
YMCA by The Village People
You Went the Wrong Way, Old King Louie by Allan Sherman