Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay - Songs for Everyone

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55 "songs for everyone" for primary school & beyond, ed. Beatrice Harrop and David Gadsby for A.C.Black, 1977. Set out on 2 staves + guitar chords & some percussion suggestions. Set for ABRSM Examinations 2018 onwards Singing Grade 1 (List A: Happy Wanderer, The or Home on the range & List C: Lazy Coconut Tree) & Grade 2 (List A: Let him go, let him tarry & List C: When the red, red robin). 

Alexander's Ragtime Band: D (a-d'') - Berlin

All the nice girls love a sailor: F (c'-d”) – Scott

Amazing Grace: F (c'-c”) – Trad. Scottish

Any Old Iron?: G (d'-b') - Collins, Sheppard & Terry

Cricket Match, The: F (e'-c'') - Trad.

Dinah: F (c'-c") - Akst

Don't Bring Lulu: Bb (c'-d'') - Rose, Brown & Henderson

Don't dilly-dally on the way: F (d'-d”) – Collins & Leigh

Happy Wanderer, The: C (c'-e”) – Moller

Home on the range: F (c'-c”) – Trad. USA

I Came from Alabama: D (d'-b') - Trad. American

I Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside: C (b-b') - Glover-Kind

I lift up my finger: C (c'-d”) - Sarony

I Love a Lassie: C (c'-d'') - Lauder

I'm forever blowing bubbles: Bb (eb'-d”) - Kenbrovin & Kellette

If You Knew Susie: Bb (d'-e'') - Sylva

Island in the Sun: D (d'-d'') - Belafonte & Burgie arr. Wescott

Jamaica Farewell: D (c'-d'') - Burgie, arr. Westcott

Keep that wheel a-turning: D (c#'-d”) – Trad.

Last thing on my mind, The: C (c'-d”) – Paxton

Lazy Coconut Tree: G (e'-c'') - Coombes, arr. Wescott

Let him go, let him tarry: Bb (d'-eb”) – trad. Irish

Let's All Go Down the Strand: C (a-c'') - Castling & Murphy

Linstead Market: D (c'-d'') - Trad. Jamaican Folk Song, arr. Westcott

Mairzy Doats and Dozy Doats: F (c'-d'') - Drake, Hoffman & Livingstone

Mango Walk: F (c'-d'') - Trad. West Indian

Michael, Row the Boat Ashore: D (d'-d”) – Trad. Spiritual

Mocking Bird, The: F (c'-c'') - Trad. Haitian Dance

My grandfather's clock: G (b-d”) – Work

Ob-la-di, ob-la-da: D (c#'-d”) - Lennon & McCartney

On Ilkla Moor baht ‘at: Bb (bb-d”) – Trad. Yorkshire

Pack up your Troubles in your old Kit Bag: G (b-d”) – Powell (+ counter-melody of “Tipperary”)

Polly-wolly-doodle: F (e'-c”) – Trad. USA

Quartermaster's Stores, The: G (d'-b') - Trad.

Roll Out the Barrel: C/D minor (c-f#") - Brown, Timm & Vejoda

Runaway Train, The: F (bb-c”) – Robison

She was one of the Early Birds: F (c'-d") - Connor

She's a Lassie from Lancashire: Bb (c'-d") - Murphy, Lipton & Neat

Short'nin' bread: C (c'-c”) – Trad. USA

Side by side: D (d'-d”) – Woods

So long, it's been good to know you: C (c'-c”) - Guthrie

Stewball: G (d'-f#”) – Yellin, Herald & Pinzler

Sucking Cider Through a Straw: D (c'-d") - Trad. (based on “The Lone Fish Ball”)

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious [Mary Poppins]: C (d'-d”) – Sherman

Swing Low, Sweet Chariot: F (c'-d”) – Trad. Spiritual

Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay: D (d'-d'') - Sayers

There's something about a soldier: A (c#'-e”) – Gay

Those were the days: A minor (c'-e”) – Raskin

Waltzing Matilda: F (c'-f”) – Cowan

When I'm Sixty Four: G minor (c#'-d') - Lennon & McCartney

When the red, red robin: F (c'-eb”) - Woods

When the Saints go marching in: F (f'-d”) – Trad. Spiritual

When you're smiling: Bb (d'-e”) – Fisher, Goodwin & Shay

Yesterday: D (b-d”) - Lennon & McCartney

You Are My Sunshine: F (c'-d") - Davis & Mitchell

 

You Can't Keep a Horse in a Lighthouse: C (c'-d") - Clarges, Hill & Littler

Tag: Singing Grade 2