In article , H Schinske says...

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Many of the folk songs we learned in
elementary school came out of the folk music revival of the 1950s and 1960s,
such as: Michael Row The Boat Ashore, If I Had A Hammer, Tom Dooley, Drill
Ye Tarriers, man, a little walk down memory lane -- I could go on and on.

Your list made me recall that one of the songs I came home from kindergarten
singing was "Maxwell's Silver Hammer." I don't know if I learned it from the
teacher or another child, though! Probably the latter.

That's The Beatles; not a folk song.

Banty