Song Sharing
Here you can find links to song sheets, audio files and sign up sheets for events.
Song sheets and audio files – please note some of these are rough recordings, not full separate part soundfiles but will give you the idea!
L Hurriya Jaya
Structure notes:
1 start with Freedom
2 then ‘l Hurriya Jaya
3 ‘l Adalla Jaya
4 ‘l Quowwa Feena
5 ‘l Hurriya Jaya
Pattern:
1 Call – sop x1
2 S x1 +Response A, T, B X2
3 “Oh yes I know” x2
n.b. for Arabic response, Tenors sing ana arif where they would usually sing oh yes i know
all sing ana arif twice where they would usually sing the first line and ana arif
Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody
Structure notes:
1 Tune – ALL in unison
2 3 part harmony
3 Tune & 3 part harmony
4 Bass line – ALL in unison
5 Bass line plus 3 part harmony & tune
timing – 5 ‘Keep on’s before ‘to the freedom land’
“Keep on”s start quiet and get louder
All Around My Spirit
Structure notes:
1 All – Unison with tune verse 1
2 verses 2 & 3 (speak my truth and sing my song) in harmony
* remember we are singing “til the wall comes down” and NOT “til the walls come down”
And We Will Speak YOUR truth.
Janet singing alto
Anything’s Better Than Coca Cola
Ceasefire
CokeBusters
Cultural Boycott
Don’t Buy Dates (Boycott Song)
Elbit Medley
End Apartheid Now
Hear the Voice of Palestine
Homes Torn Down
Structure Notes:
Final chorus x 2 in harmony, end with Silently Calling x 3 fading
I’d Like To Teach The World
I’m Buying Palestinian
Tune is basically ‘Skip to My Lou’
Justice for Palestine
Kuluna Ghaza / We Are All Gaza
| Lyrics | Score | All (residential recording) | Workshop recording |
Never Turning Back
| Score | Soundfile with beat June 2021 | Soundfile without beat June 2021 | Top | Tune | Bottom | Great March of Return Arabic Ending | Pronunciation of Arabic ending |
Structure notes:
n.b. we are only singing 4 verses 1 walking forward, 2 singing loudly, 3 stand with you together, 4 walking forward (again)
1 ALL sing first verse in Unison with tune
2 Altos sing tune, other parts in harmony
3 Last verse “Stand with you together” then
4 repeat FIRST verse
5 then ALL Great March ending x2
6 then ALL sing “Never turning back” with harmonies
Altos – split last line of ALL verses
*dynamics – first line all sing, second line quieter, 3rd line more intensely, Never turning back – first time more loud/intense, second time softer, like an echo.
Only Justice and Equality Can Bring Peace
Palestine Chants
The Children Are Always Ours
This is Home
Structure notes:
Start with Arabic, build up parts
1 Alto tune first 2 lines
2 Add Sops next 2 lines
3 This was changed on 02/02/2020 Add Tenor & Bass next 4 lines
4 English – all together in harmony with sign language
5 Humming
6 Arabic (quiet)
Natural Voice Network Soundfile in 3 parts