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Musical Director - Yvonne Burgess

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Scottish Song Book
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Summer Concert Songs
Bantry Girls Hallelujah I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) Lean On Me Letter From America Nonqause'sDream - 7thGeneration Plaisir D'amour Rolling Home Secret Life of Roses - Feyo Summertime Thula Thu - Kandisa
Windgate Yesterday - Red Red Wine

The additional songs for Autumn 09 have been added to the end of last terms song book, link below. The book contains everything from last term plus a new index and six new pages, p82-87. Further to this Plaisir d Amour has been removed from p70 as the complete version now exists on p85.
Download the Autumn 09 song book / just the index

Download the complete song book with index/just the index

This contains the words of all the songs sung by Voicehouse from January 2003 to date. It's currently under 2MB in size which will take you less than a minute to download if you have a broadband connection. It will probably take at least 10 minutes on dial up. .Once you have it on your hard disk and open it you can print the whole book or just individual pages using the printer dialogue within File/Print. You can find individual songs by clicking on a Bookmark in the left hand panel or by referring to the Index at the end.

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If you just want to download a single page and know the number then click the arrow beside the box below to display the list and then click on the page you want.

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Songs are arranged several per page and some have more than one title so be careful if you don't want to download the same page several times over.

Title	Page		Title	Page
A Bunch of Thyme	74		Misty Blue	66
A La Nanita	60		Mtsizwa	22
All the Love You Give Me	16		Mulungu Angate	26
Always Burning Sun	28		My Favourite Things	73
Always Something There to Remind Me	36		My latest sun is sinking fast	35
Amazing Grace	55		My Lord, He said unto me	76
An Diran	38		New Jerusalem	58
And everyone 'neath the vine and fig tree	30		Nkosi Mdali Wethu	66
And now it’s time to go to bed	76		Nkosi Sikeleli Africa	22
Angel Band	35		No one stands alone	18
April Moon	28		Nobilis, humilis	51
Are you going to Scarborough Fair?	54		Nonqause's Dream	67
As we go marching,	12		Now I've heard there was a secret chord	75
Asho Chela Visho Buska	5		Now summer time has gone	37
Away to the westward I’m longing to be	39		O so seo, O so seo	30
Batonebo	30		Ode to Contentment	54
Belle, qui tiens ma vie captive dans tes yeux	35		Of all the money e'er I had	41
Bracken & Moor	47		Oh that I could hear the birds again	29
Bread and Roses	12		Oh who will plough the fields now	1
Breaths	23		Oh, come by the hills	50
Bridge Over Troubled Water	60		Oj Livado Rosna Travo	16
Ca' the Yowes	40		Oliver's Army	27
Caledonia	46		On Children	38
Call me when you’re coming to town	19		On the Turning Away	12
Candy Says	74		Only You	53
Catch the Wind	42		Ooh I need your love, babe	21
Cecilia	42		Paese Mio	68
Chela	5		Paperback Writer	48
Cija Li	24		Past is history	28
Close Your Eyes	10		Pavane	35
Colours	42		Plaisir d'Amour	85
Come a’ you maidens	74		Plovi Barco	44
Come by the Hills	50		Pokare Kare	45
Come Rest	16		Rain and Shine	28
Come wander quietly	78		Reconciliation	37
Come, contentment, lovely guest	54		Red Red Wine	49
Come, thou fount of ev’ry blessing	55		Roch the win	4
Da 23rd Psalm	25		Rollin' down to Old Maui	6
Da Doo Ron Ron for Voice House	73		Rolling Home	56
Dark Island	39		Rosa's Lovely Daughters	82
Dark the Night	39		Sae Will We Yet	86
Days	31		Sakura	45
Dear sir or madam, will you read my book?	48		Santelivit Davdnebi	30
Delta Dawn	32		Scarborough Fair	54
Don’t start me talking	27		Shining so bright	28
Don't you know	5		Shto Mi E Milo	34
Downtown	2		Sing me a song of a lad that is gone	52
Ecclestiastes	42		Sittin Here in Limbo	58
Eight Days a Week	21		Skye Boat Song	52
Every Time We Say Goodbye	71		Sloop John B	8
Fairy Lullaby	40		Smoke Gets In Your Eyes	43
Farthest Field	36		So Le Muntagne	77
Fey-o	72		Some blues are just blues	71
Fhir a ‘Bhata	15		Some Old Salty	9
Fiela	61		Some time in our lives	62
Foolish Notion	3		Somewhere along the road	32
For each child that’s born	23		Somewhere Over the Rainbow	29
Freedom Come Aa Ye	4		Somos el Barco	10
Gazoleen	5		SomoSomo	69
Gee but it's great to be back home	31		Song of Peace	7
Give Me A Clean Heart	25		South African Lullaby	76
Gomo Ria Ria	51		Summertime	77
Good friends from whom we now must part	20		Sunshine on Leith	69
Hallelujah	75	Swallow Song	78
Here aroon the ingle blazing	33	Tauya's song	5
Here I stand with head in hand,	47	Ten Thousand Charms	55
Hide Your Love Away	47	Thank you for the days	31
Higher & Higher	47	That I Should Know Your Face	84
Hold my hand all the way	18	The 7th Generation	84
Holding the World	61	The Bantry Girls' Lament	1
Hora Mireseii	81	The Beautiful Slow Opening of the Heart	57
Hymn to St Magnus	51	The Boatman	15
I am a lineman for the county	43	The Briar and the Rose	49
I Can’t Help (Falling in Love With You)	43	The circle you are seated round	59
I don't know if you can see	46	The Cool of the Day	76
I fell asleep down by the stream	49	The Elm Dance	55
I gave my love a cherry that has no stone	49	The Hills of Ardmorn	29
I heard he sang a good song	43	The moment I wake up	79
I left my darling lying there	40	The Parting Glass	41
I'm Gonna Be (500 miles)	83	The Past is History	69
I Say a Little Prayer for You	79	The Rantin Dog, The Daddie O't	7
I Only Want To Be With You	82	The Riddle Song	49
I walk along the city streets	36	The Rigs O' Barley	51
I Want to Sing in Harmony	45	The Secret Life of Roses	72
I Will Guide Thee	26	The Silver Rain	57
If you travel far or tarry long	72	The Slave's Lament	51
If You Want Your Dream To Be	18	There are loved ones in the glory	42
In Freenship's Name	33	There is a land high on a hill	36
In the chilly hours & minutes of	42	There is Power	5
In Voice House and Pop Choir	73	There's a Light	11
Iripo nzimbo	30	They ask me how I knew	43
It was in sweet Senegal	51	They meet up on a Wednesday	73
It was upon a Lammas night	51	This is my song,	7
It's a rough tough life	6	This is the beautiful slow opening of the heart	57
It's Good to See You	50	Thula Thula	78
Jesus walked that lonesome valley	47	Timela	22
Joshua fought the battle of Jericho	49	To everything – turn, turn, turn	42
Kandisa	30	Tsmindao Ghmerto	24
Keep the Customer satisfied	31	Vaifamba	72
Killing Me Softly	43	Vatibaya Hamba	22
Kiss and Say Goodbye	19	Vine and Fig Tree	30
Ko man dosi mamulite	55	We are the Boat	10
Ladom Se, Goro Zalade	7	We sailed on the sloop John B	8
Lay Down Your Weary Tune	17	We're marching on	21
Lean on Me	62	Well the sun is slowly sinking down	10
Letter From America	80	Wha ma babie clouts will buy?	7
Listen more often to things than to beings	23	When I've done my work of day,	70
Lo, what a glorious sight appears	58	When the inspiration is above my station	66
Loch Tay Boat Song	70	When you go, will you send back	80
Lonesome Blues	71	When you're weary	60
Lonesome Valley	47	When you're alone	2
Looking from a window above	53	Where Are We Bound?	20
Love is a Choice	63	Who Pays the Piper?	13
Ma heart was broken	69	Who Pays the Piper? Bass	14
Ma Julieta Dama	64	Why do we kill people	3
Maiti Kune	71	Wichita Lineman	43
Malaika	64	Will Circle be Unbroken	42
Mambo Amadzimambo	11	Wimmin O' Dundee	87
Maria na Marita	57	Windgate	59
Maro Marie	64	Wise men say only fools rush in	43
May you be warm in the winter time	47	Yellow is the colour of my true love's hair	42
Mayenziwe	30	Yesterday	55
Memoranda	30	Your children are not your children.	38
Midwinter Song	47	Your love keeps lifting me higher	47
Midwives	65

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