Passages of People
Jacobs, A. Gertrude. The Chinese-American Song and Game Book. New York: A. S. Barnes and Company, 1944.
Writer's Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of New Mexico. The Spanish-American Song and Game Book. New York: A.S. Barnes and Company, ca. 1942.
Denis, Lorimer. Folklore Enfantin: Chants et Jeux des Enfants Haïtiens. Port-au-Prince: Impr. de l'État, 1949.
"Cece," a song about the wife of General Nord Alexis (president of Haiti from 1902-1908), is sung from the point of view of her servant who is frustrated by attempts to keep her separated from her lover. Cece had strict morals (moeurs sevère) and would send the servant to do menial tasks rather than let her remain with her lover.
Ritchie, James T. R. The Singing Street. Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1964.
In the World War I era song, “Broken-hearted,” laments for an imaginary soldier are mixed with nonsense phrases in order to illustrate the futility and senselessness of war.
Belaruskiia narodnyia hul´ni. Minsk: Iunatstva, 1993.
In the Belorussian "U Miadzvedzia Na Baru," one of the children is chosen to be the bear ("Miadzvedz") and tries to catch the other children while they pretend to look for berries and mushrooms in the woods.