Folk Songs of the Four Seasons is a cantata for women's voices with orchestra or piano by English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams written in 1949.

[1] Based on English folk songs, some of which he had collected himself in the early 20th century, the work was commissioned by the Women's Institute for a Singing Festival held at the Royal Albert Hall on 15 June 1950.

The first performance featured a choir of 3,000 women, accompanied by the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Adrian Boult.

[2] Ursula Vaughan Williams remembered that owing to the huge choir "the audience seemed far fewer than the performers".

[4] A fully orchestral version was arranged by Vaughan Williams' musical assistant and amanuensis Roy Douglas in 1952.