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22 Feb 08 - 06:30 PM (#2269949) Subject: Lyr Req: Songs with easy singable choruses From: Stringsinger Hi, I am looking for songs that have easy singable choruses that audiences can pick up without difficulty. Could you please suggest some? Songs like Sloop John B., This Land is Your Land, It Takes a Worried Man, Erie Canal etc. If people can pick up the choruses, they might be motivated to learn the whole song with the verses. It seems better to me that folks can pick up the choruses without burying their noses in songbooks. Frank Hamilton |
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24 Feb 08 - 11:04 PM (#2271555) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs with easy singable choruses From: Jim Dixon Sea chanteys all work well for this purpose. I happen to like GENERAL TAYLOR. Someday I'd like to try out a work song with some people who are actually doing work. |
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24 Feb 08 - 11:57 PM (#2271570) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs with easy singable choruses From: Bert Tom Pearce. A-Roving. The Night Visiting Song. Jim, I once saw Pete Seeger on TV make an utter fool of himself trying to swing a hammer and sing at the same time. |
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25 Feb 08 - 04:17 AM (#2271635) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs with easy singable choruses From: Willa Reconciliation, John Ball, Constant Lovers, Galway Shawl. Rose of Allandale |
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25 Feb 08 - 08:38 AM (#2271714) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs with easy singable choruses From: GUEST,Suffolk Miracle Bonny Woods of Ivy (ok, I know that it's actually in effect Old McDonald Had A Farm - but a change is as good as a rest!) |
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25 Feb 08 - 09:17 AM (#2271737) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs with easy singable choruses From: Richard Bridge Actually, I think the tune for General Tayor is a bit tricky. Reuben James - jingoistic Americana, but a good tune and easy chorus words. 3 Score and 10. Fathom the Bowl. Boatie, boatie s(p)it in the cut. Maui. Or are you actually after Americana specifically? If so: Will the Circle be unbroken? Love has no pride. The Mighty Quinn. Grandfather's clock. |
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25 Feb 08 - 09:18 AM (#2271738) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs with easy singable choruses From: Stu Dido Bendigo Fathom The Bowl The Fields of Athenry The Black Velvet Band Cold Blow the Rainy Night The Rocky Roads To Dublin Fiddler's Green Farewell Nova Scotia Hal-An-Tow Bonny Ship The Diamond |
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25 Feb 08 - 09:21 AM (#2271741) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs with easy singable choruses From: GUEST,Volgadon Drunken Sailor, Blood Red Roses, Haul on the Bowline, or any other chantey. The Midnight Special. We Shall Overcome. Which Side Are You on, Boys. Keep Your Eye on the Prize. Follow the Drinking Gourd. Down in the Valley to Pray. Tom Dooley. |
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25 Feb 08 - 01:08 PM (#2271966) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs with easy singable choruses From: GUEST,arran there's a song by Billy Connolly called the donkey and all you do is la la the tune. tom |
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25 Feb 08 - 04:19 PM (#2272161) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs with easy singable choruses From: Grab Rocky road to Dublin, easy?! Dude, you must be *way* too good a singer! ;-) OK, the chorus bit is fairly easy, but even there you have to be prepared for when it happens - a 9/8 slipjig with occasional drops into 6/8 ain't easy to follow. Sixteen tons Clementine Molly Malone Ready for the storm - Dougie Maclean American Pie - Don Maclean Vincent - Don Maclean Graham. |
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25 Feb 08 - 04:44 PM (#2272180) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs with easy singable choruses From: GUEST,lefthanded guitar How about Happy Landings to You Amelia Earhart |
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25 Feb 08 - 04:56 PM (#2272194) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs with easy singable choruses From: PoppaGator "Reuben James" uses the same tune as "Wildwood Flower" ~ if you want to avoid the American WWII patriotic fervor, go for teh Carter Family version. Also, speaking of Carter Family versions, "Will the Circle Be Unbroken" is sung to the same tune as the older spiritual "Glory Glory Halleluiah (Since I Laid My Burden Down)." In both cases (and others I'm sure), judge your audience as to which chorus lyric they're more likely to enjoy singing. |
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25 Feb 08 - 07:25 PM (#2272296) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs with easy singable choruses From: Sandra in Sydney Little Boy Billee - just repeat each line! |
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25 Feb 08 - 07:28 PM (#2272299) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs with easy singable choruses From: SINSULL Roll the Old Chariot (Nelson's Blood) plus you can pull in audience members to contribute to the verses. |
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25 Feb 08 - 08:30 PM (#2272344) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs with easy singable choruses From: freightdawg Ahem, Anything by John Denver, the epitome of good song writing and singability. sheesh, if it had been a snake it would have bit ya. Freightdawg |
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15 Mar 24 - 07:22 PM (#4199155) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs with easy singable choruses From: keberoxu How I found this thread to refresh: Stilly River Sage refreshed the thread about Studying Folk Music. In that thread, Joe Offer referenced a thread about Fifty Songs Everyone Should Know. And THAT thread had a post by Stringsinger, lamenting that he had started this thread here, and had gotten few responses. So: what about suggesting some songs with easy singable choruses? |
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16 Mar 24 - 04:53 AM (#4199166) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs with easy singable choruses From: The Sandman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7RlF5D2Kb0&lc=UgyZTPqfCMSw5YQgqg94AaABAg sally brown |
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16 Mar 24 - 01:08 PM (#4199182) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs with easy singable choruses From: Georgiansilver This one which I used to perform many years ago. Sammys' Bar' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzdBInO05Gg&list=PLF10246F865A19C34&index=21 |
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16 Mar 24 - 01:12 PM (#4199184) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs with easy singable choruses From: r.padgett Looking at these songs I think that they all are not easy songs to learn and sing! Takes time to learn songs that you are not familiar with Ray |
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16 Mar 24 - 01:14 PM (#4199185) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs with easy singable choruses From: Georgiansilver SAMMY'S BAR or THE LAST BOAT'S A'LEAVIN (Cyril Tawney) I went down to Sammy's Bar Hey, the last boat's a'leavin By the shore at Pieta Haul away the daighsoe And my real love, she was there Hey, the last boat's a'leavin There was sand all in her hair Haul away the daighsoe How did sand get in your hair Hey, the last boat's a'leavin Darling Johnny put it there Haul away the daighsoe He's a better man by far Hey, the last boat's a'leavin Because he drives a Yankee car Haul away the daighsoe Fourteen days I drank no wine Hey, the last boat's a'leavin Saving for that love of mine Haul away the daighsoe Then one day in Paula square Hey, the last boat's a'leavin At a paper I did stare Haul away the daighsoe Johnny tried a hairpin bend Hey, the last boat's a'leavin For my love, that was the end Haul away the daighsoe Going back to Sammy's Bar Hey, the last boat's a'leavin I don't need no Yankee car Haul away the daighsoe Daighsoe=watertaxi, Maltese term |
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16 Mar 24 - 03:37 PM (#4199194) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs with easy singable choruses From: Reinhard ... except that the chorus line is "Call away..." not "Haul away..."; see Cyril Tawney's explanation quoted on my site at The Ballad of Sammy’s Bar. |
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17 Mar 24 - 06:49 AM (#4199214) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs with easy singable choruses From: GUEST,Steve Shaw We often have singing at our Bude Memory Café get-togethers, led by "acts" of multifarious genres. Last Friday the band we had did Van the Man's "Brown-eyed Girl," and it was heartening to hear fifty or sixty people of advanced "certain ages" belting out the chorus: "Do you remember when we used to sing? Sha-la-la, la-la, la-la, la-la, la-la tee-da Sha-la-la, la-la, la-la, la-la, la-la tee-da" (repeated as much as you like!) |
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17 Mar 24 - 06:52 AM (#4199215) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs with easy singable choruses From: GUEST,Steve Shaw ...And no-one seemed to mind the seamy bit about making love in the green grass behind the stadium... :-) |
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18 Mar 24 - 09:23 AM (#4199279) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs with easy singable choruses From: FreddyHeadey chorus & parting(p) songs from the thread Best UK Chorus Songs? mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=156592 but 'easy' wasn't part of the criteria. ;) All The Good Times Auld Lang Syne (p) The Auld Triangle Barley Mow Barnyards o' Delgaty Barrett's Privateers Black Velvet Band Blaydon Races Body of An American Bold Grenadier Bold Riley Bonnie Glen Shee Bonny Ship the Diamond Bring us a Barrel(Keith Marsden) Cadgwith Anthem Cold Blow and the Rainy Night Cornish Lads(Roger Bryant) Coulter's Candy Country Life Daddy Fox Diamond Dido Bendigo Doon in the Wee Room Drinking(For I mean to get jolly well drunk, I do.) Drink Old England Dry Drovers' Song Eddie Baker's Muckspreader Farmer's Boy Fathom the Bowl The French shall never drink old England dry Fiddler's Green Gan Canny Brian God Speed the Plough(Farmer's Toast\Jolly Farmer) Good King Arthur's Days The Good Old Way Grandfather's Clock Hard Times Health To The Company Holmfirth Anthem Home Boys Home Horkstow Grange I'm a Rover In Freenship's Name (?trad)(p) I Thought I Had No Voice (Scott Murray) The Jeely Piece Song Jock Stewart John Barleycorn Jones's Ale Jug of Punch The Keeper Kelty Clippie Kind Friends and Companions (Sheila Stewart)(p) Leaving of Liverpool Let Union be in All Our Hearts Loath to depart(p) The Lorry Ride Macpherson's Farewell Manchester Rambler Martin Mary Ellen Carter Maui Mermaid Miners Life Mormond Braes Moving-On Song Nelson's Blood New York Gals Nightingales Sing No-Man's Land North Country Maid Only Remembered Paddy Lay Back The Parting Glass (Irish version)(p) Parting Song (Dave Webber) (p) Pittenweem Jo Pleasant and Delightful Poverty Knock Rolling Down to Old Maui Rolling Home(John Tams) Rolling Home to Caledonia Rolling Home to dear old England Rose of Allendale Sae will we Yet (p) Stanley Market The Star O' the Bar The Sweet Nightingale Tailor's Breeches Tak a dram afore ye go (Ian Sinclair)(p) Tatties and Herring Thousands or More Three Score and Ten Twankydillo Waltzing Matilda Wee Cooper of Fife We're no awa' tae bide awa'(p) When All Men Sing When First We met (Alan Bell)(p) Whisky in the Jar The White Hare of Bowden Widecombe Fair Wild Mountain Thyme Wild Rover William Brown/Early in the Morning Yellow on the Broom Young Banker Young Sailor Cut Down in his _________ |