Cumulative Songs Referred To in Wikipedia Entries
- "The Twelve Days of Christmas"
- "Green Grow the Rushes, O"
- "I Am a Fine Musician" from 2 episodes of the Dick Van Dyke Show
- "There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly"
- "Old McDonald Had a Farm"
- "Alouette"
- "Eh, Cumpari!"
- "I Have a Song to Sing, O" from Gilbert & Sullivan's opera The Yeomen of the Guard
- "Children, go where I send thee"
- "I Bought Me A Cat"
- "The Green Grass Grew All Around"
- "Song of Love" from the musical Once Upon a Mattress
- "The Rattlin' Bog"
- "The Barley Mow"
- "There's a Hole in the Bottom of the Sea"
- "Du Hast" is partially cumulative, and is a fairly popular German industrial song, making its cumulative parts somewhat novel.
- "The Court of King Caractacus" by Rolf Harris
- "The Schnitzelbank Song"
- "Must Be Santa", a Christmas song popularized by Mitch Miller
- "Don't Be Anything Less Than Anything You Can Be" from the musical Snoopy
- "Getta Loada Toad" from the musical A Year with Frog and Toad
- "Minkurinn í hænsnakofanum", an Icelandic song about farm animals waking each other when a mink storms the chicken pen.
- 'Herring's Heads', sung by Johnny Doughty on The Voice of the People vol 07
- 'My Cock Crew', sung by Con Greaney on 'Traditional Singer'
- 'Old King Cole', sung by Martin Gorman on The Voice of the People vol 07
- "Widdlecome Fair" (Widecombe Fair, Tam Pierce), sung by Tom Brown on The Voice of the People vol 07
- 'Most Beautiful Leg of the Mallard', sung by Henry Mitchelmore on The Voice of the People vol 07
- 'This Is the House That Jack Built'
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