Statistics for Traditional American Folk Song Lyrics

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  • The average score is 11 of 18

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Lyrics% Correct
Yankee {Doodle} went to town
A-riding on a pony,
He stuck a feather in his cap
And called it macaroni.
98%
Amazing {grace}! How sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me!
I once was lost, but now am found--
Was blind, but now I see.
92%
Home, home on the {range},
Where the deer and the antelope play;
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word
And the skies are not cloudy all day.
85%
Skip, skip, skip to my {Lou},
Skip, skip, skip to my {Lou},
Skip, skip, skip to my {Lou},
Skip to my {Lou}, my darlin'.
84%
Oh my darling, oh my darling,
Oh my darling, {Clementine}!
Thou art lost and gone forever,
Dreadful sorry, {Clementine}.
80%
My {Bonnie} lies over the ocean,
My {Bonnie} lies over the sea.
My {Bonnie} lies over the ocean;
Oh, bring back my {Bonnie} to me.
76%
On top of Old {Smoky},
all covered with snow,
I lost my true lover,
for courtin' too slow.
73%
Oh! {Susanna},
do not cry for me;
I come from Alabama,
with my banjo on my knee.
72%
{Jimmy} crack corn and I don't care,
{Jimmy} crack corn and I don't care,
{Jimmy} crack corn and I don't care,
My master's gone away.
69%
Someone's in the kitchen with {Dinah},
Someone's in the kitchen I know,
Someone's in the kitchen with {Dinah}
Strummin' on the old banjo!
58%
When {Johnny} comes marching home again,
Hurrah! Hurrah!
We'll give him a hearty welcome then,
Hurrah! Hurrah!
57%
I wish I was in the land of cotton,
Old times they are not forgotten;
Look away! Look away!
Look away! {Dixie} Land.
53%
Way down, upon the {Swanee} River,
Far, far away.
That's where my heart is turning ever,
That's where the old folks stay.
44%
Old John {Brown}'s body lies moldering in the grave,
While weep the sons of bondage
whom he ventured all to save;
But tho' he lost his life while struggling for the slave,
His soul is marching on.
40%
"Won't you come home, Bill {Bailey},
won't you come home?"
She moans the whole day long;
"I'll do the cooking, darling, I'll pay the rent;
I know I've done you wrong."
37%
Aura {Lea}, Aura {Lea},
Maid with golden hair;
Sunshine came along with thee,
And swallows in the air.
36%
Oh {Shenandoah}, I long to hear you,
Away, you rolling river.
Oh {Shenandoah}, I long to hear you,
Away, I'm bound away,
Across the wide Missouri.
26%
In Scarlet Town, where I was born,
There was a fair maid dwellin';
Made every youth cry "Well-a-day";
Her name was Barbara {Allen}.
20%

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