Part A
Part B
Part C
Part D
Senior Choir
Bloom by Lisa Longe
Part 1
Part 2
Who Will Buy?
Who will buy this wonderful morning?
Such a sky you never did see.
Who will tie it up with a ribbon
And put it in a box for me?
There’ll never be a day so sunny
It could not happen twice
Where is the man with all the money?
It’s cheap at half the price.
Who will buy this wonderful feeling?
I’m so high I swear I could fly
Me oh my I don’t want to lose it
So what am I to do to keep the sky so blue?
Oom Pah Pah!
Start singing at 0:41
Oom pah pah Oom pah pah
That’s how it goes
Oom pah pah Oom pah pah
Ev’ryone knows
(The all suppose what they want to suppose
When they hear Oom pah pah)
Oom pah pah Oom pah pah
That’s how it goes
Oom pah pah Oom pah pah
Ev’ryone knows
They all suppose what they want to suppose
(When they hear Oom)
Pah pah!
Consider Yourself
Start Singing at 2:34
Consider yourself at home
Consider yourself one of the family
We’ve taken to you so strong
It’s clear we’re going to get along
Consider yourself well in
Consider yourself part of the furniture
There isn’t a lot to spare
Who cares whatever we’ve got we share
If it should chance to be
We should see some harder days
Empty larder days why grouse?
Always a chance we’ll meet
Somebody to foot the bill
Then the drinks are on the house
Consider yourself our mate
We don’t want to have no fuss
For after some consideration we can state
Consider yourself one of us!
Food Glorious Food!
Is it worth the waiting for?
If we live ‘til eighty-four
All we ever get is gruel!
Every day we say our prayer
Will they change the bill of fare?
Still we get the same old gruel!
There’s not a crust, not a crumb we can find,
Can we beg, can we borrow, or cadge,
But there’s nothing to stop us from
Getting a thrill when we all close our eyes and imagine
Food glorious food!
Hot sausage and mustard!
While we’re in the mood
Cold jelly and custard!
Pease pudding and saveloys
What next is the question
Rich gentlemen have it boys
In-dye-gestion!
Food glorious food!
We’re anxious to try it
Three banquets a day
Our favourite diet!
Just picture a great big steak
Fried, roasted or stewed
Oh, food wonderful food marvelous food glorious food
Food glorious food
What is there more handsome?
Gulped, swallowed or chewed
Still worth a king’s ransom
What is it we dream about?
What brings on a sigh?
Piled peaches and cream about
Six feet high.
Food glorious food
Eat right through the menu
Just loosen your belt
Two inches and then you
Work up a new appetite
In this interlude
On food magical food
Wonderful food
marvelous food
fabulous food
(beautiful food)
Glorious food.
CBC Music Class Challenge 2018
Here's the video we were discussing at the beginning of choir this week. Thanks to Mme Dani for finding the video!
Northern Lights
Aurora Borealis (x4)
Lights flicker, lights flash
Lights flutter, they dart and they dash
Earth is frozen in Arctic ice,
But the sky looks warm
When the colours form.
Pink and purple, yellow and red
Indigo and emerald in spirals overhead
Dancing in the darkness
Lighting up the night.
What a beautiful sight, northern lights.
Aurora borealis
Lights glimmer, lights glow
Lights shimmer, and shine on the snow
Fingers are frozen and toes are cold.
But our hearts are warm
When the colours form
Pink and purple, yellow and red
Indigo and emerald in spirals overhead
Dancing in the darkness
Lighting up the night.
What a beautiful sight, northern lights.
Maybe it’s a miracle.
Maybe it’s a sign
That there is something out there,
Celestial or divine.
Aurora borealis (x5)
Northern lights
Sleigh Ride
Les grelots sonnent sur les champs
Avec leurs voix, répondent les enfants.
Les cœurs d’hivers sont réchauffés
Les rêves des fêtes sont allumés
Les grelots sonnent toute autour
Le village scintille maintenant
Avec-nous, viens rire et chanter
C’est précieux d’être tous ensemble
L’hiver apporte un air lumineux
C’est spécial, jour après jour
Les grelots sonnent sur les champs
Avec leurs voix, répondent les enfants
Retourne aux foyer, aurevoir aux amis
Passe le temps en joie, avec la famille
Les grelots sonnent toute autour
Le village scintille maintenant
Avec nous, viens rire et chanter
C’est précieux d’être tous ensemble
Chante avec les voix émouvantes
Joie d’hiver et les belles chansons
A la claire fontaine
Paroles:
A la claire fontaine,
M’en allant promener,
J’ai trouvé l’eau si belle
Que je m’y suis baigné.
Il y’a longtemps que je t’aime,
Jamais je ne t’oublierai.
Sous les feuilles d’un chêne,
Je me suis fait sécher,
Sur la plus haute branche
Un rossignol chantait.
Il y’a longtemps que je t’aime,
Jamais je ne t’oublierai.
Chante, rossignol, chante,
Toi qui a le cœur gai,
Tu as le cœur a rire,
Moi, je l’ai à pleurer.
Il y’a longtemps que je t’aime,
Jamais je ne t’oublierai.
J’ai perdu mon amie,
Sans l’avoir mérité
Pour un bouquet à roses,
Que je lui refusai.
Il y’a longtemps que je t’aime
Jamais je ne t’oublierai.
Je voudrais que la rose,
Fût encore au rosier,
Et que ma douc’ amie
Fût encore à m’aimer.
Il y’a longtemps que je t’aime
Jamais je ne t’oublierai.
Jamais, jamais je ne t’oublierai.
The Fox
Lyrics:
The fox went out on a chilly night,
He prayed to the moon to give him light,
For he’d many a mile to go that night
Before he reached the town-o, town-o, town-o
Many a mile to go that night
Before he reached the town-o.
He ran till he came to a great big bin
Where the ducks and the geese were put there in.
“A couple of you will grease my chin
Before I leave this town-o, town-o, town-o,
A couple of you will grease my chin before I leave this town-o”
He grabbed the grey goose by the neck,
Threw a duck behind his back;
He didn’t mind the “quack, quack, quack!”
And their legs all a dangling down-o, down-o, down-o,
He didn’t mind the “quack, quack, quack!”
And their legs all dangling down-o.
The old gray woman jumped out of bed;
Out of the window she cocked her head, crying,
“John, John! The grey goose is gone!”
And the fox is on the town-o!” town-o, town-o
Crying “John, John! The grey goose is gone
And the fox is on the town-o.”
He ran ‘til he came to his cozy den;
There were the little ones eight, nine, ten.
They said, “Daddy, daddy, better go back again,
It must be a mighty fine town-o”
The fox and his wife without any strife
They cut up the goose with a fork and a knife,
And they never had such a supper in their life
And the little ones chewed on the bones-o, bones-o, bones-o!
They never had such a supper in their life
And the little ones chewed on the bones.
The little ones chewed on the bones-o!
La Neige Tombe
Snow is Falling - Words and Music by Ruth Elaine Schram, Translated by Meagan Thorlakson
Onedrive links:
Pt1 - La neige tombe pt 1.m4a
Pt 2 - La neige tombe part 2.m4a
Google Drive links:
Pt 1 - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dDNksCgv7kIUibOdbCLGs8yuUUPcQq4c/view?usp=share_link
Pt 2 - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fgFFQr9chPdp5fC0YXaz0s0mbGq8Mir-/view?usp=share_link
La neige tombe, tombe doucement
d'un ciel tout gris.
Change un matin triste et sombre
en hiver magique.
Cold and clean and white,
Shining diamond bright,
All the world seems right.
Quand...
La neige tombe, tombe doucement
d'un ciel tout gris.
From a dawn crisp in its chill,
through a sunless noon;
to an evening lovely and still,
under a silver moon.
Snow is drifting, gently drifting
through the frosty air.
Fills an ordinary place
with wonder everywhere.
Cold and clean and white,
Shining diamond bright,
All the world seems right.
Quand...
La neige tombe, tombe doucement
d'un ciel tout gris.
Change un matin triste et sombre
en hiver magique.
La neige tombe, tombe doucement
d'un ciel tout gris.
d'un ciel tout gris.
Solfège Santa
Solfège Santa - Contains "Jingle Bells" by J. Pierpont, Additional Words and Music by Cristi Cary Miller
One Drive Links:
Pt 1 - Solfège Santa pt 1.m4a
Pt 2 - Solfège Santa pt 2.m4a
Google Drive Links:
Pt 1 - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TR4usZ9rQ-YGDhqIRFTcblCJjUVaZAPz/view?usp=share_link
Pt 2 - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DmfUu9Y9dMIi0x-SG8UdnmgkBipMQzQH/view?usp=share_link
One day Santa Claus
Did a most peculiar thing.
He enrolled in music class
so he could learn to sing.
He worked so very hard
and practiced all the day.
Soon ev'ry song that Santa knew
he sang the solfege way.
And he sang,
mi, mi, mi.
mi, mi, mi.
mi, sol, do, re, mi.
fa, fa, fa, fa, fa,
mi, mi, mi,
sol, sol, fa, re, do.
Missus Claus was quite impressed
and she, too, very soon
teamed up with Santa Claus
to join him in his tune.
The evles and reindeer, too,
soon left their work and play
to be a part of Santa's choir
and sing the solfege way.
And they sang:
do, mi, sol, mi.
do, do, la, ti, do.
re, sol, la, ti,
do, do, do, do,
ti, ti, ti, ti, do.
Now ev'ry afternoon
Santa and the rest
practice their new song
so they will be the best.
And if you watch T.V.
you'll see how singing's brought them fame.
For all accross the land
they are a North Pole idol name.
And they sing:
(Pt1)
mi, mi, mi.
mi, mi, mi.
mi, sol, do, re, mi.
fa, fa, fa, fa, fa,
mi, mi, mi,
sol, sol, fa, re, do.
(Pt2)
do, mi, sol, mi.
do, do, la, ti, do.
re, sol, la, ti,
do, do, do, do,
ti, ti, ti, ti, do.
(everyone together)
So have a happy holiday
and sing the solfege way.
mi, sol, do re mi!
Oseh Shalom
Hello all!
Our piece for the Remembrance Day Ceremony this year is Oseh Shalom. It is a composition by Joan Beckow with words from a traditional Jewish text in Hebrew. I have modified the words to be more along the lines of "A wish for peace". The text means "May the one who causes peace to reign have peace descend upon us, let us say peace"
Please feel free to practice these at home as much as you like. The kids know whether they are part 1 or part 2. Even just running through it once or twice can be hugely beneficial to their confidence in the whole group.
Oseh shalom
Bim'romav,
hu ya 'a-seh
Shalom.
Aleynu, Aleynu,
Aleynu, Aleynu,
vehimehru, vehimehru,
Shalom