Music

We are gradually building a repository of songs, songsheets, sound files, videos and weblinks for choirs to use for singing at events. Please feel free to use any of the material contained within the resources below but remember to acknowledge the source.

Potential Songs for the Bradford SCF 2025

Songs and songsheets

General

Anti-Tory

Climate Crisis

Sing for Climate_Bella Ciao

Disarmament

iCAN Ban That Bomb

Housing

NHS

Palestine

Ceasefire Forever (words and music)

End The Occupation (Penny Stone) – learning video and parts and score

Paris Commune 150th Anniversary (2021)

Music and words

Chants de la Commune

Chansons Commune de Paris 1870-1871

La Danse Des Bombes

Republicanism

Refugees and asylum seekers

Sisters Not Strangers

Trump

Sound files

Bambalela

Protest in Harmony: Bambalela (all)
Protest in Harmony: Bambalela (bass and alto)
Protest in Harmony: Bambalela (bass and tenor)

One Song, One Dance

Protest in Harmony: One Song, One Dance (all)
Protest in Harmony: One Song, One Dance (alto and bass)
Protest in Harmony: One Song, One Dance (alto and tenor)
Protest in Harmony: One Song, One Dance (alto, tenor and bass)
Protest in Harmony: One Song, One Dance (tune and alto)
Protest in Harmony: One Song, One Dance (tune and bass)
Protest in Harmony: One Song, One Dance (tune and tenor)

Videos

El Derecho De Vivir En Paz (The Right to Live in Peace) as taught by Eileen and Martin from Protest in Harmony. It was written in the 1970s to show solidarity with Vietnam during the war with the USA and more recently sung in Chile during the protests against inequality, privatisation and the cost of living. You can find a copy of the words here.

Keep It Cool is an environmental song written for Liverpool Socialist Singers:

Look Out (Global warming threatens every one of us) by Strawberry Thieves:

No More Blah, Blah, Blah by Disquiet Rascals – inspired by the words of Greta Thunberg

Sing It Loud and Sing It Clear – Refugees Are Welcome Here – a song by Penny Stone

Choirs’ materials

Several CCN members have indicated that they are happy for other choirs to view and use their online material although an acknowledgement of the source is normally required. Click on the links below to visit other choirs’ websites.

Protest in Harmony

Protest in Harmony have also produced the sound files below for use in Zoom sessions:

Sea Green Singers – general repertoire

Sea Green Singers – songs for XR events

Strawberry Thieves

Other websites

Traditional Arts Team (Birmingham) produce an occasional songsheet, the Political Songster, containing songs from writers such as Boff Whalley, Robb Johnson, Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie and others and which you can download from their website. Well worth a look for inspiration!

Rise Up and Sing (Annie Patterson and Peter Blood) have many songs on racial justice, climate change, immigration, labour, and war and peace.