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Repertoire - Songs & Rounds

also Manchester Street Choir Festival 2007 song files and The Island (jazz opera)]

NB: The sound files below are mostly recordings of rehearsals when we were first learning our parts. They are here to help us remember the songs and are not representative of our performances.
More representative recordings of performances are here.

Download booklets of music and words of most of the songs below:
2011 edition of Core Repertoire booklet:
an A6 booklet containing words only. This comes as 2 pdf files. Print off the first file (8 A4 sheets) with the printer set in the <Properties> menu to print 2 pages per sheet. Reload the printed paper into the printer so the second pdf file prints on the back; check the orientation is ok otherwise the back face will be upside down relative to the front face; on my printer this means the paper is face up so you can see the already printed side as it lays in the printer tray and read it i.e. it is not upside down and the top of the page enters the printer first - it may be different on other printers. Cut the printed sheets in half: this requires care as the lyrics should be accurately aligned: cut half way between the text rather than cutting the page in two equal halves. Assemble the 60 page booklet. Staple in the middle (the hardest part of the job). Trim the edges with a surgeons scalpel.


Music and words:
an A4 songbook as a Word document containing score and words of around 80 of the songs listed below: download Word document

(see note at bottom of page for instructions on how to download files).

- Links to info' on St Amant are now here.
- Liens de musique etc de St Amant sont ici.

 

The most recent songs added:
A Mans a Man for a' That,
Song of Peace,
Walk a mile in my shoes,

This is my prayer for peace,
Olive Tree,
I aint afraid,
Peace be with you in the morning,

Farquahar,
We'll fight on against the cuts,
Tory Toffs,
We've sung a 1000 songs of peace
Contents: Click for song sheets/sheet music or to play the mp3 files of parts or download as described below.
Lyrics & Song sheets
Bass
Tenor
Alto
Soprano
All
Songs from 350 demo Oxford, 24th 2009          
Adelante          
All around my spirit
Aint gonna study war no more tenor - pno
A man's a man for a' that
Amandah Weih - see Freedom is Coming          
Asikhatali
Asylum is a human right
sgs tracks drop a key midway - sorry!
Ballad of Accounting
hear Ewan sing it here
Rhythmn:
Bar 1 - S/T & A/B different rythmns
Bar 13 - S/A & B/T different rythmns - except V4
Talking rhythmn: V1, V2
Bandiera rossa
Bella Ciao      
all.
Bella Ciao - We are singing (English words)
Blood and Gold
bass - see all
bass - midi
Blood on Your Hands
Blowing in the wind - see Recycling        
Both Sides
Boycott Song
Bread and Roses - Orig. p/c score
Breaths          
Bringing in the Sheaves - Orig. p/c score  
Bringing Peace/Salaam - Sarah W mixed voices
Bringing Peace/Salaam - Sarah W solo voice
Brother Can You Spare A Dime
midi files - ties and slurs are ignored
Building a Wall - see They're building....          
Bumbelayla - alternative words:
Never give up, Pull down the wall, freedom for all, clean up the world etc
Carry On          
Chains (You aint got nothing to lose but your ...)
Climate for Peace        
Climate Skeptic - only chorus harmonized
Coal not Dole    
Coop
Croughton Balls      
Day the Nazi Died          
Deep Blue Sea; (mp3 files from Protest in Harmony )
Derry Streets - Foggy Dew      
(The) Diggers Song          
Dont Fence the WTO in
Everything is gonna be all right see Sing on just a little while longer
Eh Malama (see Manchester version below)
Ellas Song
Ellas Song - alternative verses        
El Pueblo
Factory        
Fair Trade - midi files
Fair Trade Rant - Coffee version        
Fair Trade Rant - original
Farquahar's Retreat
Fight the cuts (tune:Rock my soul)      
all - sgs at Green fair 2010
Foolish Notion - tenor speaking
Foggy Dew - see Derry Streets          
Freedom is a voice

all - sgs

Freedom's Coming - Amandah Weih
(Manch. = Manchester Choir recordings)
Tenor - Manch

Freedom's Coming Around the Corner
- mixed voice recordings

Freedom's Coming (around the corner) - solo voice
From a distance          
Gentle Angry People - see Singing for Our Lives          
Gnomorewah
Got to bring the wall down portrait
- Landscape
Granny Was A Suffragette          
Green Song - verse 4 plays at end of midi files
Golden Thread      
Hamba Kahle Umkhonto - pdf file from Strawberry Thieves
Hard Times Come Again No More - on one page
Happy Birthday
Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman - Sarah W mixed voices
Harriet Tubman - Sarah W solo voice
Heire Bannag Hoire Bannag
I Aint Afraid
I Can See Clearly Now      
(Not) In My Name for verse tune see all
Internationale (v. Billy Bragg; see also Manchester versions - 'mv' - below. )
tenor - mv
sop - mv
Its the same the whole world over
sop - as tune
I want to have a little bomb like you
* Key change error in middle of bass/alto-sgs mp3 files
Jarama - Valley in Spain
Jericho - (The) Wall Will Come Tumbling Down all - sgs
Joe Hill
Knowledge if Power
Land Rights - see Right to Life          
La Lega (English)
Italian score - La Lega (mp3)
 
La Vigne au Vin
Lesang magwala a cheche - spoken - final
Levellers Day Song          
Levellers Day Song - Revised version arr. SW

Life's Purpose

Lives in the Balance - SarahW mixed voices
Lives in the Balance - SarahW solo voice
March of the Women
March on - see Sing on          
Mevi Lyetu
Never Turning Back          
NHS for sale street theatre by Strawberry Thieves          
Nkosi Sikelela Afrika          
No Going Back; score & MP3 parts
see other parts
 
No Sticking Plaster      
Not In My Name - see In My Name          
Now is the time for all the earths people
to come together in unity
 
Olive Tree normal speed chorus
slow version for learning

One Song, 1 Dance, 1 World, 1 Chant
Mp3: first part of song; midi from Strawberry Thieves

Only Our Rivers Run Free          
Pay Me My Money Down      
Peace be with you always
Perhaps          
Plegaria a un Labrador - talking through words
Prayer for peace - see This is my...          
Preacher and the Slave (Pie in the Sky)
pdf and midi files from Strawberry Thieves
Recycling        
(The) Red Flag - rhythmn
Right To Life - (Land Rights)      
(The) River is Flowing          
(The) River Runs          
Rolling Home          
Rosa Parks recordings by Sheffield Soc. Ch.
Save our NHS (tune 'Hymn des femmes)  
Senzenina
Shosholosa - (see also Manchester version below)
Shosholosa - Manchester score          
Singabahambayo Thina
Singing for our Lives; score& MP3 parts
(We are the Oxford SeaGreen Singers)
Sing/March on just a little while longer
Siya Hamba - We are Singing in the Name of Peace
Skin - kids song      
Slaves Lament
Slave to Time
Somewhere on Sea

Lyrics
Song for Gaza in C
Lyrics
Song for Gaza - midi
in Dflatmaj (5 flats)
Song for Gaza - midi
in Emaj (4 sharps)
Song of Choice - Peggy Seeger          
(Something Inside) So Strong
Soyilwela

Songs of Freedom
 
Song of Peace (Finlandia)
Summer is a-coming in - War Begets Poverty (score in book download)          
There is Power in a Union          
They're Building a Wall       David Rovics
This is my prayer for Peace
This Land is Your Land          
Those Balls Have Got To Go          
Thina Simunye
Thina Siswe (words) - spoken
Tory Toffs (SThs = Strawberry Thieves)        
U Mandela
Union (The) see La Lega
 
Unison in Harmony
Union Miner - chorus
................... - verse
Vila Soco (meu amor) pdf - Talk through  
(The) Wall Will Come Tumbling Down - see Jericho          
Walk a mile in my shoes in C or Bmaj
Wangari - pitch varies on 'Wangari' at end of mp3 files
Manchester Choir at Whitby
 
War begets Poverty R Brown (1701) - Summer is a coming in; score in A4 book download          
War Machine Rolls Round - score & MP3 parts          
Watch Out - score & MP3 parts          
We Are All Under the Stars
sung to a spoken text.
Hear Sheffield Socialist Choir recdg of 1st and 3rd sections
We Are The Oxford SeaGreen Singers - see Singing for our Lives          
We'll fight on - (STh = Strawberry Thieves)
new words to S. African song Amen Siakudumisa
We Got Fooled Again        
We Shall not give up the fight
We've Sung a 1000 song of peace
When They Came Around - film        
Which Side Are You On
William Brown - tenor midi file is modified (see score, voice is not)
chorus
William Brown 
verse 6 - Note: Sop sings tune
William Brown - (Woodcraft song) -
verse 4 & 5 midi files
Women only
V5 - Men
Women only
V5 - Men
Workers Unite for the Battle
(The) World Turned Upside Down
Yil Lull
You aint got nothing to lose but your chains - see Chains          
You're a sleepy baby - lullaby        
           


Rounds

A Revolution now wouldnt do us any harm
('cos we're leading from below)
     
Ah Yellay
Bellamama        
Break ‘em on        
Chocola
pt 1 - midi
pt 2 - midi
pt 3 - midi
Come And Sing
Friends, only love can succeed  
Gospel Train        
Ho Tarakoi - Japanese round      
Its Women Make Us Love        
Keep on singing
My name is ... lets sing along        
Oongoowah - call response        
Peace in our heart        
Shooby-doo-wah - each person starts one after the other on each beat        
warm up round - 1 - 121 - 12321 - 1234321.....        
Welcome, we're gonna sing together
Welcome, welcome, welcome ???? welcome        
We're gonna change the world - see Keep on singing
We thought it was wrong (We want peace)
We want peace, justice and peace        
Yilolay

Manchester Street Choir Festival Songs

25 Years
Eh Malama
Freedom Alto-high
Internationale
Shosholoza
Scores to above          
           

General Interest: The Island Jazz Opera

Listen to 'The Island' by William Russo, words by Adrian Michell, with Cleo Lane and Dennis Quilley, played by the Russo orchestra, leader Leon Calvert. This is a jazz opera written for radio at around the time of the expulsion of the Diego Garcia islanders to make way for a US airbase as described in an article by John Pilger. It combines the resources of a chamber orchestra and a big band. It contrasts the superficialities of US popular culture with the simplicity of the islanders. It was recorded from the radio but the quality is sufficient to convey the beauty and power of the music and the tragedy of the story. I have put it here because it is unavailable elsewhere. I think the political message is still too strong to re-broadcast it
Click here to listen to it (10 minute mp3 files parts 1 to 3)
Hear the interview with Jo Thoenes on BBC Oxford with Pete Cranston about the SeaGreen Singers broadcast on 12th October 2009

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