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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:
Words of songs:
an A6 booklet containing words only of the core reportoire. This comes as 2 pdf files each containing 5 A4 sheets; print off the first 5 sheets from the first file, reload the printed paper so the second file prints on the back (this usually means in laser printers putting the paper print-side up in the tray with the bottom of the page entering the print rollers first i.e. furthest from you), cut the printed sheets in half and assemble the 40 page booklet. Staple in the middle (the hardest part of the job).

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.

 
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
Adelante          
Aint gonna study war no more  
Amandah Weih - see Freedom is Coming          
Asikhatali          
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      
all.
Bella Ciao      
all.
Blowing in the wind - see Recycling        
Both Sides    
Boycott Song        
Bread and Roses - typed score
Breaths          
Bringing in the Sheaves - Typed 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 ...)  
Coal not Dole    
Coop
Day the Nazi Died          
Deep Blue Sea; (mp3 files from Protest in Harmony )
Derry Streets - Foggy Dew      
(The) Diggers Song          
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
Foolish Notion - tenor speaking
Foggy Dew - see Derry Streets          
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
Granny Was A Suffragette          
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
I Can See Clearly Now      
In My Name      
Internationale (v. Billy Bragg; see also Manchester versions - 'mv' - below. )
tenor - mv
sop - mv
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    
Joe Hill
Land Rights - see Right to Life
La Lega - see Union
         
Lesang magwala a cheche - spoken - final
Levellers Day Song          
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          
Nkosi Sikelela Afrika          
No Going Back; score & MP3 parts        
Not In My Name - see In My Name          
Now is the time for all the earths people
to come together in unity
 

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      
Perhaps          
Plegaria a un Labrador - talking through words
(The) Picketline Song          
Recycling        
(The) Red Flag - rhythmn
Right To Life - (Land Rights)      
(The) River is Flowing          
(The) River Runs          
Rolling Home          
Senzenina        
Shosholosa - (see also Manchester version below)
Shosholosa - Manchester score          
Singabahambayo Thina
Singing for our Lives; score& MP3 parts
Sing/March on just a little while longer
Siya Hamba - We are Singing in the Name of Peace    
Slaves Lament        
Slave to Time
Song of Choice - Peggy Seeger          
Soyilwela
Songs of Freedom  
Summer is a-coming in - War Begets Poverty          
There is Power in a Union          
They're Building a Wall (words)       David Rovics
This is my prayer for Peace          
This Land is Your Land          
Those Balls Have Got To Go          
Thina Siswe (words) - spoken
U Mandela
(The) Union -
translation of La Lega (mp3)
All Men - midi
  all - v2 & 4 midi
all - v1 & 3 midi
Unison in Harmony          
Vila Soco (meu amor) pdf - Talk through  
(The) Wall Will Come Tumbling Down - see Jericho          
War begets Poverty R Brown (1701) - Summer is a coming in          
War Machine Rolls Round - score & MP3 parts          
Watch Out - score & MP3 parts          
We Are The Oxford SeaGreen Singers - see Singing for our Lives          
We Shall not give up the fight
When They Came Around - film        
Which Side Are You On
William Brown -
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
(The) World Turned Upside Down
Yil Lull
You aint got nothing to lose but your chains - see Chains          
           


Rounds

A Revolution now wouldnt do us any harm ('cos we're leading from below)      
Ah Yellay
Break ‘em on        
 
Come And Sing
Freedom is a Song        
           
Gospel Train        
Ho Tarakoi - Japanese round       all - sgs
Its Women Make Us Love        
Keep on singing
warm up round - 1 - 121 - 12321 - 1234321.....        
Welcome, we're gonna sing together
We're gonna change the world - see Keep on singing
We thought it was wrong (We want peace)
We want peace
      All - sgs

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

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