The Children's Rights Songbook.

SSATB - with a two-part version available for children.

Nine songs with simple words that distil the most important rights in the United Nations Convention of Children's Rights. Scored for piano with additional parts for drum-kit, bass and optional brass section, these songs have been sung by primary school choirs as well as large choral societies. They work best with a mixture of both!
1 These Are the Rights - The first piece in the suite is available as a separate sheet, to give a flavour of the songbook. £2.50 + p&p

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2 Fitiavana - a Malagassi hymn

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3 Say My Name

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4 Mama Didn't Know (Everyone shall have a name to call his own)

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5 Let Us Tell You What We're Thinking

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6 Watch Over Us

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7 The Children's Response To War

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8 Allow Us to say Our Own Prayers

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9 These Are the Rights (reprise)

Running Time 38 minutes

For more information, example sheets, and all the lyrics, click the CD page.

Buy from 1 to 9 copies of The Children's Rights Songbook for £12 each:

Buy from 10 or more copies of The Children's Rights Songbook for £8 each:

Enter the Lone Ranger

SSATB

An hilarious a capella version of the script of the first ever broadcast of the famous cowboy TV series. Includes quotations from several well-known cowboy songs, as well as the famous William Tell overture.

Running time: 23 minutes. Fringes and rhinestones optional.

Buy from 1 to 9 copies of Enter the Lone Ranger for £15 each

Buy 10 or more copies of Enter the Lone Ranger for £10 each

Listen to a clip here

View the first page of sheet music here

Serenade d'Hiver

SATB unaccomp. Rehearsal score available.

A show-stopping tribute to whatever pub you may be singing in (or next to). It draws heavily on Saint-Saens' piece of the same name for 4 male voices, but with the intended dedicatee the bar staff rather than a love-lorn wintry female.

Running time: 5 minutes

Buy from 1 to 9 copies of Serenade for £5 each:

Buy 10 or more copies of Serenade for £3.50 each:

View the first page of sheet music here

It's A Girl!

SSATB

Four songs for pregnant women everywhere.

In "Sitting in the Clinic" a woman reflects on the bewildering variety of ailments available to the new expectant mother. £1.99

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"Move Over Mama" is a little voice within the womb warning of future consequences. £1.99

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"Another Woman Goes" tracks the parents' relationship as it reaches breaking point. £1.99

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And in "Cut the Cord" the ordeal is finally over. £1.99

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Listen to a sample of Cut the Cord here

Originally written for the stage, the songs have been re-arranged to include male voices (my choir covered any identity confusion by having the men dressed in white coats - complete with stethoscopes!)

Buy from 1 to 9 copies of It's a Girl for £5 each:

Buy 10 or more copies of It's a Girl for £3.50 each:

The Amnesiacs Club

SATB

A Four-part double fugue for choir (with piano accomp.)
Four amnesiacs meet every week in a pub. The next morning each enters the pub in turn, bewailing the article they left behind - a phone, an umbrella, a box of pills, a baby. As the fugue develops, they join together to sing of their woes.
Of course the Kleptomaniacs club were meeting the same night, and in a more hopeful key, each of their members comes on in turn brandishing one of the lost articles. Naturally a fight ensues, in which the two fugues battle for supremacy.
Running time: approx 7 minutes

Buy from 1 to 9 copies of The Amnesiacs Club for £5 each:

Buy 10 or more copies of The Amnesiacs Club for £3.50 each:

View the first page of sheet music here

World Christmas Songs

Alegria SATB

This lively Puerto Rican carol is a hit wherever it is performed. In a swinging 6/8 rhythm it describes a rural nativity with charm and simplicity. Words partly in Spanish.

Buy from 1 to 9 copies of Alegria for £1.50 each:

Buy 10 or more copies of Alegria for £1.10 each:

'Bullies' For Choir

SSATB

1. Hey Tris! £1.99 View the first page of sheet music here

2. Not Right Now £1.99 View the first page of sheet music here

3. Coming Out to Play £1.99 View the first page of sheet music here

Buy from 1 to 9 copies of theBullies for Choir set for £5 each:

Buy 10 or more copies of the Bullies for Choir set for £3.50 each:

See Music for Schools for more information.