folk songs's Usage Examples:

simple style that are learned informally "by ear" are often referred to as folk songs.

Hundreds of folk songs from the 19th century have known authors but have continued in oral tradition.

to be much older than both the lyrics and the subject, going back to folk songs of Medieval Europe.

Niles published The Ballad Book of John Jacob Niles, in which he connects folk songs which he collected throughout the southern United States and Appalachia.

This illustrates how folk songs can change in the retelling and appear in a variety of versions.

The lyrics of this song is a variation of Ukrainian folk songs which were sung in the "Shum" folk ritual.

intentionally excluded from Francis James Child's renowned compilation of folk songs The English and Scottish Popular Ballads.

More recently, Russian folk songs with strong religious (spiritual) components have been performed by singers.

As with most folk songs, many variations of the lyrics exist and many versions of this song have.

Hava Nagila is one of the first modern Jewish folk songs in the Hebrew language.

The region's folk songs are associated with the various events in the life of an ordinary person.

Synonyms:

rabble; folks; riffraff; ragtag and bobtail; grass roots; ragtag; plebeian; common people; home folk; gentlefolk; pleb; people; country people; countryfolk;

Antonyms:

uninitiate; poor people; timid; rich; brave;