Spring 2025 - Songs Celebrating Our Great british Weather!
Our concert is on Sunday the 23rd of March at Potter's Street Baptist Church. Please arrive by ?pm for a pre concert rehersal before the actual concert starts at ?pm. Dress code is the usual, black bottoms (trousers or skirts) and white tops (shirts or blouses). Red scarfs for ladies and bow ties for gentlemen will be provided.
You can download the audience programme from HERE
What follows are my usual mixture of sheet music and rehearsal tracks in programme order. As usual, if there are discrepencies between my version and the original, trust the original, I've almost certainly made errors.
Morning Has Broken
- Sheet Music
 - Rehearsal Tracks: Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass
 
You Are My Sunshine
The Lark In The Morn
- Sheet Music
 - Sheet Music Vocal Only
 - Rehearsal Track
 - Performance Notes: Verse 1 Solo (Clair?), then Verse 1 again with all of us, then Verse 2.
 - YouTube (note this is not exactly the same as what we are singing, but it's very close)
 
Summer Is Icumen In
- Sheet Music
 - Alternative Sheet Music (easier to understand lyrics)
 - Rehearsal Track
 - Performance Notes: Karen and Sally are singing the "burden" (the bars marked "Pes I" and Pes II" at the bottom of the sheet). Then Men and Alto's sing the whole piece once. Men and Alto then repeat the piece a second time, and the Soprano's come in from the start but one bar behind (as in a round). Men and Alto's will then finish, followed by the Sopranos one bar later, followed by the burden.
 - YouTube (note we are singing it considerably slower and with only two parts plus burden rather than the four they eventually do in this video)
 
Summertime (And The Living Is Easy)
- Sheet Music
 - Rehearsal Tracks: Soprano, Alto, Bass
 
Oh, What A Beautiful Morning
- Sheet Music
 - Rehearsal Track
 - Performance Notes: Verse 1 as written, Verse 2 Men only for first phrase, then everyone joining in for the repeat, Verse 3 Soprano's only for the first phrase with everyone joining in for the repeat.
 
Your Hay It Is Mown
- Sheet Music
 - Rehearsal Tracks: Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass
 - Performance Notes: Verse 1 as written, Verse 2 Solo (Juliana?) until "One in ten" where we all join in, Verse 3 the same except the soloist is Karen?, Verse 4 the same but the soloist is all the men.
 
The Merry Haymakers
Never Weather-Beaten Sail
- Sheet Music: Choral, Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass
 - Rehearsal Tracks: Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass
 - Performance Notes: Remember to repeat the "O come quickly" section!
 - YouTube (note, from what I can tell this is exactly the version we are singing)
 
Come, Ye Thankful People, Come
- Sheet Music
 - Rehearsal Tracks: Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass
 
In The Bleak Mid-Winter
Sunrise, Sunset
Singin' In The Rain
- Sheet Music
 - Rehearsal Tracks: Soprano, Alto, Baritone
 
Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head
- Sheet Music
 - Sheet Music Vocal Only
 - Rehearsal Track
 - Performance Notes: We are repeating the last two bars.
 
A Song Of The Weather
- Sheet Music
 - Rehearsal Track
 - Performance Notes: 1st half of verses 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 & 11 sung by David, 2nd half sung by women, 1st half of verses 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 & 12 sung by women, 2nd half sung by men.
 - YouTube
 
Green Bushes
Now Is The Month Of Maying
- Sheet Music: Choral, Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass
 - Rehearsal Tracks: Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass
 - YouTube (note, very similar to what we are singing, but with a male voice choir rather than mixed, also I hope we're singing this slower)
 
Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be