Allo, Monsieur

This is a French-language chant to accompany a ball-bouncing game.

Source: Recording of “Allo, Monsieur:  Le Jeu de la Balle” (The Game of the Ball) from Smithsonian Folkways recording, “Children's Game Songs of French Canada." #110                                                                   

Ye Toop Doram

Farsi Ball Game from Iran and West Afghanistan
Source: Brown, Nyssa.  January 2010 Northwest Kodály Educators Workshop Notes.
Transcribed from Joan Litman

Plainsies Clapsies

This simple three-note English ball-bouncing song gets complicated and fun when you try to sing it while doing all the tricks.
Sources: Eisen, Ann and Robertson, Lamar.  An American Methodology: An Inclusive Approach to Musical Literacy. p. 374
Chosky, Lois.  The Kodaly Method.  Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ. 1988. page 170.

Bounce

Young students love playing this ball-bouncing game, and it is also perfect for preparing and presenting la.
Source: Ed. Locke, Elanor G.  Sail Away: 155 American Folk Songs to Sing, Read, and Play p. 4