Words of Songs

We have provided several different ways to download the words to suit different connection speeds and the requirements of newcomers and old hands alike. All are in PDF format which you can download to your hardrive, either by right-clicking and selecting Save As or by clicking and then saving the PDF when it opens in a new page. You will need Adobe Reader(20MB) or another free PDF reader like Foxit(2MB) to open these files. If you don't have such a thing, download and install first from here:

Recent Changes

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 dialup. 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.

Download by page number

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.

Download by song title/first line

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	Midwinter Song	47
A La Nanita	60	Midwives	65
All the Love You Give Me	16	Misty Blue	66
Always Burning Sun	28	Mtsizwa	22
Always Something There to Remind Me	36	Mulungu Angate	26
Amazing Grace	55	My Favourite Things	73
An Diran	38	My latest sun is sinking fast	35
And everyone 'neath the vine and fig tree	30	My Lord, He said unto me	76
And now it’s time to go to bed	76	New Jerusalem	58
Angel Band	35	Nkosi Mdali Wethu	66
April Moon	28	Nkosi Sikeleli Africa	22
Are you going to Scarborough Fair?	54	No one stands alone	18
As we go marching,	12	Nobilis, humilis	51
Asho Chela Visho Buska	5	Nonqause’s Dream	67
Away to the westward I’m longing to be	39	Now I’ve heard there was a secret chord	75
Batonebo	30	Now summer time has gone	37
Belle, qui tiens ma vie captive dans tes yeux	35	O so seo, O so seo	30
Bracken & Moor	47	Ode to Contentment	54
Bread and Roses	12	Of all the money e’er I had	41
Breaths	23	Oh that I could hear the birds again	29
Bridge Over Troubled Water	60	Oh who will plough the fields now	1
Ca' the Yowes	40	Oh, come by the hills	50
Caledonia	46	Oj Livado Rosna Travo	16
Call me when you’re coming to town	19	Oliver’s Army	27
Candy Says	74	On Children	38
Catch the Wind	42	On the Turning Away	12
Cecilia	42	Only You	53
Chela	5	Ooh I need your love, babe	21
Cija Li	24	Paese Mio	68
Close Your Eyes	10	Paperback Writer	48
Colours	42	Past is history	28
Come a’ you maidens	74	Pavane	35
Come by the Hills	50	Plaisir d’Amour	70
Come Rest	16	Plovi Barco	44
Come wander quietly	78	Pokare Kare	45
Come, contentment, lovely guest	54	Rain and Shine	28
Come, thou fount of ev’ry blessing	55	Reconciliation	37
Da 23rd Psalm	25	Red Red Wine	49
Da Doo Ron Ron for Voice House	73	Roch the win	4
Dark Island	39	Rollin' down to Old Maui	6
Dark the Night	39	Rolling Home	56
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	The Bantry Girls' Lament	1
Hold my hand all the way	18	The Beautiful Slow Opening of the Heart	57
Holding the World	61	The Boatman	15
Hora Mireseii	81	The Briar and the Rose	49
Hymn to St Magnus	51	The circle you are seated round	59
I am a lineman for the county	43	The Cool of the Day	76
I Can’t Help (Falling in Love With You)	43	The Elm Dance	55
I don't know if you can see	46	The Hills of Ardmorn	29
I fell asleep down by the stream	49	The moment I wake up	79
I gave my love a cherry that has no stone	49	The Parting Glass	41
I heard he sang a good song	43	The Past is History	69
I left my darling lying there	40	The Rantin Dog, The Daddie O’t	7
I Say a Little Prayer for You	79	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	Windgate	59
Maria na Marita	57	Wise men say only fools rush in	43
Maro Marie	64	Yellow is the colour of my true love’s hair	42
May you be warm in the winter time	47	Yesterday	55
Mayenziwe	30	Your children are not your children.	38
Memoranda	30	Your love keeps lifting me higher	47