folk songs
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There was already music in the family - her mother, Avie Lee, sung folk songs all the time and her aunt played the guitar and wrote songs.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
Belafonte began singing at downtown nightclubs with a repertoire of Caribbean folk songs adopted from the Greenwich Village music scene.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
The series’ musical landscape also includes a myriad of folk songs, such as the drunken tavern tune “Alice With Three Fingers” and the childish rhyming couplets of “The Hammer and the Anvil.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026
The research team began reviewing folk songs, poems, and myths written or performed in Marathi, some dating back to the 13th century.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 1, 2026
She saw her mother curled beside her in a hut, singing folk songs under her breath, and she saw the way Mama’s eyes had rolled back in her head.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
