Tommy and Julie Paxton
A Tom Paxton, not the Tom Paxton
Butthe Tommy Paxton!
There once was a little boy named Tommy who would go to Lake Winnepasaukee with his family in the summertime. It was a long car drive to the lake, and on the radio he would hear “The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind,” and “Little Jackie Paper loved that rascal Puff.” The folk movement of the early sixties was going strong and revolution was in the air. Tommy was not yet ten, but there were deep stirrings going on within him as well. For he was moving into manhood and wanted people to stop calling him Tommy -- and start calling him Tom, which sounded much more grown-up. He did not realize that in Greenwich Village - not too far from this New Hampshire lake where he stood skipping rocks – a man with the very same name was at the vortex of this folk craze that dominated the radio that summer: the Tom Paxton. The boy could not know that by desperately wanting those around him to start calling him Tom, he would forever be relegating himself to the status of a Tom Paxton – never the Tom Paxton.
As the boy became a man who entertained family groups under the name Tom Paxton, he found that he was often answering the question, “Are you ‘the’ Tom Paxton?” This was understandable since “the” Tom Paxton was possibly the most prolific, and probably the best, children’s song writer out there. To avoid confusion and a future of being merely “a” Tom Paxton, he changed back to his boyhood name of Tommy Paxton. Now he is “the” Tommy Paxton, and the circle is complete.
Tommy's Repertoire
Kid’s Songs
Apples and Bananas
Baby Beluga
Baoom, Baoomba Bubble Gum
Big Rock Candy Mountain
Bob Bob Bob
The Bingo Farmer
Campfire Songsong
The Cat Came Back
Chicken Cluck
Chimchiminy
Dayo
Do You Know What I Am?
Don’t Be Rude to a Rhinoceros
Down By the Bay
Down By the Station
Dunderback
Elephant Fly
Father Abraham
Five Little Monkeys
Gina the Laughing Hyena
Goin On a Lion Hunt
Halloween Town
He and She Seagulls
I Got Bugs
Itsy Bitsy Spider
Jellyman Kelly
Lollipop Tree
Long Gone From Kentucky
Little White Duck
Little Sir Echo
Lydia the Tattooed Lady
The Marvelous Toy
Monsters in the Bathroom
Mouse in My House
Mr. Hoover’s Ghost
My Bonnie
My Aunt Came Back
My Boomerang Won’t Come Back
Oh Hey Oh Hi Hello
On Top of Spaghetti
Open, Shut Them
Peanut Butter and Jelly
Puff the Magic Dragon
With a Finger Touch a Toe
The Royal Duke of York
Rawhide
She’ll Be Comin’ Around the Mt.
Spaghetti
Spongbob
A Spoonful of Sugar
Supercalifragialistic-expealidocious
Suzanna’s a Funny Old Man
Tennessee Stud
The Teddy Bear’s Picnic
The Wheels on the Bus
There’s a Pea on my Plate
These are the Questions
Three Little Fishes
Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star
We are the Bears
When You Wish Upon a Star
Willie the Whale
You’ll Be Sorry
Musical Games and Dances for Kids
Patty Cake Polka
One Elephant Went Out to Play
Chicken Dance
Macarena
Hokey Pokey
Broom Dance
Jump Jim Joe
Head and Shoulders Baby, 1,2,3
Alabama Gal
My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean
The Royal Duke of York
Ants in My Pants Dance
Simon Says
Stick to the Glue
Freeze Dance
Musical Squares
Hot Potato
Round de doo Bop
Old King Glory
Square Dances
Red River Valley
Marchin’ to Georgia
Birdie in the Middle
Rip n” Snort
Texas Star
Irish Washerwoman
Reels and Contra Dances
Virginia Reel
Jefferson and Liberty
Broken Sixpence
Line Dances
Cotton Eyed Joe
Electric Slide
Slappin’ Leather
Boot Scoot
Big Kids Song List (arranged by artist)
Beatles
Lady Madonna
Drive My Car
Something
Norwegian Wood
Here, There and Everywhere
I’ll Cry Instead
If I Fell
Hey Jude
Let It Be
Ob La Di, Ob La Da
You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away
Rocky Racoon
Imagine
I’ve Just Seen a Face
Get Back
With a Little Help From My Friends
John Denver
Annie’s Song
Rocky Mountain High
Leaving on a Jet Plane
Sunshine on my Shoulder
For You
Grandma’s Feather Bed
Thank God I’m a Country Boy
Wild Montana Skies
Whispering Jessie
Eagles and Horses
Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young
Teach your Children
Love the One You’re With
Old Man
Helpless
Heart of Gold
Harvest
Southern Cross
Eric Clapton
Layla
Tears in Heaven
Tulsa Time
Rock in’ Roll Heart
Wonderful Tonight
Willie Nelson
Always on My Mind
Whisky River
Blue Skies
Stardust
Georgia on My Mind
All of Me
Unchained Melody
Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain
What a Wonderful World
My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys
On the Road Again
Luchenback, Texas
Mamas, Don’t Let Your Babys
City of New Orleans
Poncho and Lefty
Jack Johnson
Banana Pancakes
Better Together
Sitting, Waiting, Wishing
Upside Down
Bubbly Toes
Gordon Lightfoot
If I Could Read Your Mind
Sundown
Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Bobby McGee
Sons of the Pioneers
Cool Water
Ghost Riders in the Sky
Tumbling Tumbleweeds
Eagles
Peaceful Easy Feeling
Hotel California
Take It Easy
Your Crying Eyes
Desperado
Tequila Sunrise
Van Morrison
Moondance
Tupelo Honey
Crazy Love
Brown Eyed Girl
Someone Exactly Like You
Jimmy Buffet
Margueritaville
A Pirate Looks at Forty
Cheeseburger in Paradise
Come Monday
Volcano
Cat Stevens
Wide World
Moonshadow
Morning Has Broken
Father and Son
James Taylor
Carolina In My Mind
Don’t Let Me Be Lonely Tonite
Fire and Rain
How Sweet It Is
Mexico
Up on the Roof
Shower the People
Something In the Way She Moves
Sunny Skies
Sweet Baby James
Your Smiling Face
You’ve Got a Friend
Walking Down a Country Road
Bob Dylan
Blowing in the Wind
Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright
Just Like a Woman
Like a Rolling Stone
Lay Lady Lay
Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door
I Shall Be Released
Tonight I’ll Be Staying Here With You
You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere
Mr. Tamborine Man
Rolling Stones
Start Me Up
Satisfaction
Honky Tonk Woman
Jumpin’ Jack Flash
Tom Petty
I Won’t Back Down
Refugee
Freefallin’
Breakdown
The Band
The Weight
The Night They Drove Ol’ Dixie Down
Across the Great Divide
Grateful Dead
Friend of the Devil
Truckin’
Sweet Magnolia
Simon and Garfunkle
The Sounds of Silence
Me and Julio
Mrs. Robinson
Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover
The Boxer
Cecilia
Scarborough Fair
Bridge Over Troubled Water
Fifty Ninth Street Bridge Song
Neil Diamond
Cherry, Cherry
Sweet Caroline
Solitary Man
Play Me
I’m a Believer
Everly Brothers
Dream, Dream, Dream
Wake Up Little Suzy
Cathy’s Clown
Devoted to You
Let It Be Me
Bye, Bye Love
Garth Brooks
Friends in Low Places
The Dance
The River
The Thunder Rolls
Clint Black
Like the Rain
Nothin’ But the Tailights
Better Man
Killin’ Time
Lyle Lovett
If I Had a Boat
She’s No Lady
My Baby Don’t Tolerate
In My Own Mind
Blues for Dixie
Billy Joel
Piano Man
Just the Way You Are
New York State of Mind
You May Be Right
She’s Always a Woman To Me
Only the Good Die Young
Elton John
Tiny Dancer
Can You Feel The Love Tonight
Don’t Let the Sun Go Down On Me
Your Song
Johnny Cash
A Boy Named Sue
Ring of Fire
Folsum Prison Blues
I Walk the Line
Wabash Canonball
Green, Green Grass of Home
George Strait
Amarillo by Morning
All My Ex’s Live in Texas
The Fireman
Cross My Heart
Jim Croce
Bad, Bad Leroy Brown
Time in a Bottle
Operator
Age
Alan Jackson
Chattahootchie
She’s Got the Rhythm
Tonight I Climbed the Wall
Asleep at the Wheel
Miles of Texas
Boogie Back to Texas
Roly Poly
Route 66
Bob Marley
No Woman No Cry
Stir it Up
Kinks
You Really Got Me
All Day and All of the Night
Lola
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Fortunate Son
Have You Ever Seen the Rain
Who’ll Stop the Rain
Green River
Miscellaneous Country Favorites
Battle of New Orleans
El Paso
Streets of Laredo
Fire on the Mountain
Can’t You See
Good Hearted Woman
Jambalaya
King of the Road
Leaving Louisiana
Wheels
Mr Bojangles
Up Against the Wall
Across the Great Divide
The Gambler
Lucille
Pamela Brown
Old Dogs and Children
Paradise
Rose of St Antone
Sixteen Tons
Sweet Home Alabama
Tennessee Stud
The Perfect Country Song
Wildfire
She Thinks I Still Care
Don’t Fence Me In
Back in the Saddle Again
Beer For My Horses
Fishin’ Blues
Cattle Call
Across the Great Divide
Night Rider’s Lament
Walkin’ After Midnight
This Land Is Your Land
If I Had a Hammer
Home on the Range
You Are My Sunshine
Red River Valley
Rocky Top
Get Along Little Doggies
Miscellaneous Rock and Pop Favorites
Under the Boardwalk
Love Potion #9
The Way
Walking on the Sun
Mony, Mony
What I Like About You
Rock This Town
Your Body is a Wonderland
Where are You Going?
The Space Between
Fields of Gold
All I Want is You
And She Was
At Last
Golden Lady
Good Lovin’
Joy to the World
Landslide
Let’s Stay Together
New Wave Polly
Lake of Fire
Cat’s in theCradle
American Pie
Money for Nothin’
Wedding Favorites
Longer
The Wedding Song
Here, There and Everywhere
So In Love
Crazy Love
Have I Told You Lately
Devoted to You
Let It Be Me
For You
Annie’s Song
Have You Ever Loved a Woman
Fields of Gold
Wonderful Tonight
At Last
Christmas Favorites
Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire
Coventry Carol
Deck the Halls
Do You Hear What I Hear?
The First Noel
Frosty the Snowman
God Rest Yee Merry Gentlemen
Good King Wenceslas
Hark the Herald Angles Sing
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
Here Comes Santa Claus
I’ll Be Home For Christmas
Jingle Bells
Jingle Bell Rock
Jolly Old Saint Nicholas
Let It Snow
Mister Santa
O Christmas Tree
O Come all Ye Faithful
O Little Town of Bethlehem
Rudolph the Rednosed Reindeer
Silent Night
Silver Bells
Up on the Housetop
We Three Kings of Orient Are
What Child is This?
White Christmas
Winter Wonderland
Great American Songbook Tunes
They Can’t Take that Away From Me
Just the Way You Look Tonight
It Had to Be You
The Nearness of You
Isn’t It Romantic
Night and Day
I Get a Kick Out of You
Fly Me to the Moon