Hillenbrand (Counting Crocodiles) gives a new angle to a favorite farmyard folk song in this jaunty adaptation. The cumulative lyrics begin, "I had a cat. My cat pleased me. I fed my cat under yonder ...
Barbara Allen --The cherry tree carol --Frank James, the roving gambler (The Boston burglar) --Caroline of Edinboro' Town --Young Charlotte --Jack of diamonds --Old smoky -- Devilish Mary --Darling ...
A similarly oversize version of the folksong Fiddle-I-Fee by Santiago Cohen also encourages youngsters to chime in with animal names and sounds in a cumulative rhyme: ""I had a horse and the horse ...