Good A Capella Chorus Songs

Subject: RE: Good A Capella Chorus Songs
From:
Date: 11 Jan 99 - 10:35 PM

Donkey Riding is the version I prefer over Hieland Laddie. I think they came up with the Hieland Laddy version because someone didn't know what to what the donkey riding was making reference.

Northwest Passage; Whiskey O Johnny O; Pleasant and Delightful; Congo River. Actually, any number of sea shanties. Some Scottish gaelic songs sound very nice this way too, but unfortunately I haven't a clue what they are singing about.

Also French Canadian Voyageur songs, which like sea shanties are work songs, meant to be sung while paddling your big canoe.

Subject: RE: Good A Capella Chorus Songs
From: Animaterra
Date: 11 Jan 99 - 09:54 PM

Jack in the Green, To drive dull care away, Let union be, Julian of Norwich, Rise up Jock, Shake these bones, Waltzing with bears, Hard times come again no more, Going down the valley... haven't checked the DT for any of these but I'll bet they're there!

Subject: RE: Good A Capella Chorus Songs
From: jeffs
Date: 11 Jan 99 - 09:26 PM

hmmm... there's shanties Bully in the Alley Rolling down to old Maui Hieland Laddie White Collar Holler

there's spirituals Honey in the Rock Swing Low Sweet Chariot Down by the Riverside

jeff

Subject: Good A Capella Chorus Songs
From: Barbara
Date: 11 Jan 99 - 08:30 PM

I'm looking for a few good songs, ones that have the kind of chorus good singers can pick up and run with. Not too slow, not too repetitious, ones everyone can get into yet not the ones we've sung a thousand times already like Wild Mountain Thyme or Sportsmen Arouse.
Here's a couple I've been using recently to give you an idea of what I want: When We Go Rolling Home, and (Hear the Fond Tale of) The Sweet Nightingale. They can be stories, drinking songs, plotless wonders, militant, rowdy bawdy, sad, minor, you name it, just so they pull people in and are entertaining.
Since we're all different, just tell me what works for you.
Blessings,
Barbara