Sheffield Socialist Choir

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LYRICS	SCORE	ALL	SOP	ALTO	TENOR	BASS	EXTRA	THEME
A Change is Gonna Come
A Ji Ya Mozambique			Sop	Alto	Tenor	Bass		INTERNATIONAL
A Million Nightingales	Score	Soundfile
Act As If It Were Possible
Ain’t Gonna Study War								PEACE/ANTI-WAR
Arrogance, Ignorance and Greed	Score	All	Sop	Alto	Tenor	Bass		ANTI-CAPITALISM
Asimbonanga	Score							INTERNATIONAL
Asylum 2019 Part 1 Asylum Part 1		All	Sop	Alt	Tenor	Bass	Chart 1	REFUGEES
Asylum 2019 Part 2 Asylum Part 2		All					Chart 2	REFUGEES
Asylum 2019 Part 3 Asylum Part 3		All	Sop	Alt 1 Alt 2	Tenor	Bass
Asylum part 1		All	Sop	Alto	Tenor	Bass	Bridge	REFUGEES
Asylum part 2		All	Sop1  Sop2 Sop3	Alto	Tenor	Bass	Voice 1 Voice 2	REFUGEES
Asylum part 3	Score	All	Sop score	Alto score	Tenor score	Bass score		REFUGEES
Ballad of Joe Hill	Score	All	Sop	Alto	Tenor	Bass		WORKERS’ RIGHTS
Balad of Saltley Gate		Saltley Gate & UCS Medley
Bandiera Rossa								INTERNATIONAL
Barclays Bank	Score	All	High	Low
Better Life								WORKERS’ RIGHTS
Better Times Will Come
Breaths								PEACE/ANTI-WAR
Bread and Roses		All	Sop	Alto	Tenor	Bass
Bring ‘Em All In		All	Sop	Alt	Tenor	Bass	Solos   Lyrics Citizen Shanty Medley
Building Bridges_Stand Up
Buy More Stuff		All	Sop	Alto	Tenor	Bass		ANTI-CAPITALISM
Calling Joe Hill	Score		Sop	Alto	Tenor	Bass	Chorus	WORKERS’ RIGHTS
Can’t Eat Money
Carry Greenham Home
Ceasefire		adrienne maree brown video
Cholita Climbers
Citizen Shanty		All	Sop	Alto	Tenor	Bass & caller
Coal Not Dole	Score							WORKERS’ RIGHTS
Come Hear the Call	Score	All	Sop	Alto	Tenor	Bass	Female tenor	ENVIRONMENT
Crossing the Border								REFUGEES
Cry Heart		All parts
Deep River								PEACE/ANTI-WAR
Dirty Water	Score	All	Sop	Alto	Tenor	Bass
Do Not Carry a Heavy Heart		All	Sop	Alto	Tenor	Bass
Do Not Stand At My Grave	Score 1   Score 2	All	Sop	Alt	Tenor	Bass
Don’t Buy Dates Don’t Buy Dates 2020								PALESTINE
Don’t Get Me Started	Score	All	Sop	Alto	Tenor	Bass		ANTI-CAPITALISM
Don’t Sell Our Healthcare								PUBLIC SERVICES
Dulce Embeleso		All	Sop	Alto	Tenor	Bass		CUBA
Earth’s Child
Ella’s Song			Sop	Alto	Tenor	Bass		ANTI-RACISM
El Derecho de Vivir en Paz Verse 1 – unison Verse 2 – harmony Verse 3 – harmony Verse 4 – lalas until last three lines – then words as for verse 3 – all in harmony, then last line a further 3 times in unison except for chord on very last Paz.	Score (verse 2&3)	Tune	High Harmony	Low Harmony
Every Brick You Take from the Wall	Score		Sop	Alto	Tenor High Tenor Low	Bass
Fat Cat	Score	Allpt1  Allpt2 Allpt3	Sop pt1 Pt2	Alto pt 1 Pt2	Tenor pt1 Pt2	Bass pt1Pt2	Whole song	ANTI-CAPITALISM
Far More United	Score	All	Sop		Tenor	Bass	Video	SOLIDARITY
Fire in my Heart
Foolish Notion								PEACE/ANTI-WAR
For Ella	Score	All	Sop	Alto	Tenor	Bass
For The Many Not The Few	All							PUBLIC SERVICES
Forward We Shall March								SOLIDARITY
Guatanamera		All	Sop	Alto	Tenor	Bass	Verse 2 Verse 3 Verse 4 Low Harmony v2	CUBA
Here is my Home	Score							SOLIDARITY
Hope
How Do You Sleep?	Score	All	Sop	Alto	Tenor	Bass		PUBLIC SERVICES
How Long Have You Been Blind	Score	All	Sop High Sop	Alto	Tenor	Bass
How Many Days?								REFUGEES
iCan								ANTI-NUCLEAR
I Gave My Eyes	Score	All	Sop	Alto	Tenor	Bass
I Stand With You	Score	All	Sop	Alt	Tenor	Bass		PEACE/ANTI-WAR
I Stay	Score	All parts
I Tend a Plant	Score	All parts
I Want Rosa to Stay	Score	All						REFUGEES
I’m Gon’ Stand	Score
In Dangerous Times
In David’s Big Society		All		Alto	Tenor	Bass		ANTI-CAPITALISM
In the Dark Times	Score	All parts
In The Forest (Wimoweh)		All parts
Internationale			Sop	Alto	Tenor	Bass		SOLIDARITY
Inzozi Nziza
It’s a Long Walk to Freedom
Joe Hill Medley	Score		Sop	Alto	Tenor	Bass		WORKERS’ RIGHTS
Juramento			Sop			Bass	Aurea Performance	CUBA
Keep On Singing	Score	All	Sop	Alto	Tenor	Bass		SOLIDARITY
Keeping Faith		Video – Gitika Partington
Kuluna Ghaza/We Are All Gaza	Score
La Plegaria – full version La Plegaria	Full Score & Parts		Sop	Alto	Tenor	Bass		CUBA
Lay It Down	Score	All	Sop	Alto	Tenor	Bass		PEACE/ANTI-WAR
Let the Life I’ve Lived		All	Sop	Alto	Tenor	Bass
Let Us Stand
Lifting As We Climb		All	Sop 1 Sop 2	Alto	Tenor	Bass
Little Bit of Good	Score	All	Sop	Alto	Tenor	Bass	All parts video
Lives in the Balance	Score	All						PEACE/ANTI-WAR
Living to a GDP Beat	Score	All	High Sop Lower Sop	Alto	Tenor	Bass
Mark My Words	Score	All	Top	Middle	Low	Low		ANTI-CAPITALISM
Mary Anning Rocks!
Matata		All						INTERNATIONAL
Matata – Climate Change		All						ENVIRONMENT
May You See Diamonds	Score Score		Sop	Alt	Tenor	Bass		SOLIDARITY
May Your Cup Always Be Full	Score	All	Sop	Alto	Tenor	Bass		SOLIDARITY
Nach Dieser Erde		All
Nana Was A Suffragette		All	Sop	Alto (& Bass in Octaves)	Tenor	Bass (& Alto in Octaves)
Never Doubt That Janet Wood
New Year’s Eve
New Year Round
NHS SOS	Score	All						PUBLIC SERVICES
Nkosi Sikelel ‘IAfrika	Score							INTERNATIONAL
Not in my Name								PEACE/ANTI-WAR
No Deportations		All						REFUGEES
O Cant dels Ocells		All	Sop	Alto	Tenor	Bass		INTERNATIONAL
Ode to Joy
Oh Dear Sainsburys								PALESTINE
Oh How We Love the NHS
Oh Palestine Oh Palestine	Score	All	High Part 1 High Part 2	Middle	Low
One Day One Day 2024 words	Score New 2024 score	All All 2024	Sop High 2024	Alto Middle 2024	Tenor/ Bass Low 2024
One Family
One Foot in Front of the Other
One World, One Chance	Score	All	Sop	Alto	Tenor	Bass	Notes	ENVIRONMENT
Olive Tree						Bass		PALESTINE
Orgreave Orgreave 2024 words	Score	All						SOLIDARITY
Pain ou ca Mange		All	Sop	Alto	Tenor	Bass		INTERNATIONAL
Palestine Chants		4 part video
Panic	Score	All
Paycheck		All						WORKERS’ RIGHTS
Peace Will Come
People Get Ready		All	Sop	Alto	Tenor	Bass		SOLIDARITY
Poverty Knock 22 (cost of living rewrite)	Score	All
Power in a Union	Score		Sop	Alto	Tenor	Bass		WORKERS’ RIGHTS
Power of Song		All	Sop	Alto	Tenor – fem  Tenor – mal	Bass	Top alto chorus	SOLIDARITY
Promise Lyrics only Lyrics with notes	Score	All Promise Mother Earth Section	Sop	Alto	Tenor/Bass
Raising My Voice, Raising Your Voice	Score
Rebel Voices
Red Flag								WORKERS’ RIGHTS
Refugees are Welcome Here	Score							REFUGEES
Refugee Medley	Score	All	Sop	Alto	Tenor	Bass		REFUGEES
Rise Up
Rolling Home								WORKERS’ RIGHTS
Rosa Parks	Score	All	Sop	Alto	Tenor	Bass	Extra Verses	ANTI-RACISM
Save the Human Rights Act	Score	All	Tune				Round	HUMAN RIGHTS
Save the Trees	Score						Video	ENVIRONMENT
Say Say Yes	Score	All
Say Their Names	Score (Acappella)	All	Sop	Alto	Tenor & Bass	Bass & Tenor
Senzenina								ANTI-RACISM
Sheffield Needs A Pay Rise	Score	All						WORKERS’ RIGHTS
Sheffield Socialist Choir	Score	All	Tune	Middle		Bottom
Sing for the Climate	Score	All	Sop	Alto	Tenor	Bass
Siyabonga South Africa
Singabahambayo Thina		All	Sop	Alto	Tenor	Bass		INTERNATIONAL
Singing Together Apart		All	Sop	Alto/ Tenor	Baritone/Tenor	Bass
Sleep		All	Sop	Alto	Tenor	Bass		PEACE/ANTI-WAR
Sleepwalkers All	Score	All						ENVIRONMENT
Sold Down the River	Score1 Score2		Part 1	Part 2	Part 3			REFUGEES
Solidarity Forever	Score	All	Sop	Alto	Tenor	Bass
Somewhere on Sea Lyrics with Alto highlighted	Score original Score 2020	All original All 2020	Sop original Sop 2020	Alto original Alto 2020	Tenor original Tenor 2020	Bass original Bass 2020		ENVIRONMENT
Something Inside So Strong	Score pg 1 pg 2 pg 3 pg 4 pg 5 pg 6 pg 7
Song for Gaza Song for Gaza 2023	Score Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4	All 2020 Melody 2020	Sop 2020	Alto 2020	Tenor 2020	Bass 2020	You Tube link to SSC singing Song for Gaza 2016	PALESTINE
Song of Peace	Score	All	Sop	Alto	Tenor	Bass		PEACE/ANTI-WAR
Song of the Low New Windborne verses	score page 1 page 2 page 3		Sop	Alto	Tenor	Bass
Song of the Olive Tree	Score pg 1 Score pg 2 Score pg 3 Score pg 4 Score pg 5 Score pg 6	All	Sop	Alto	Tenor	Bass n.b. this is a keyboard recording		PALESTINE
Songs Against the Policing Bill
Spirit of the Workhouse	Score	All	Sop	Alt	Ten	Bass		PUBLIC SERVICES
Sports Direct	Score	All	Sop	Alto	Tenor	Bass		WORKERS’ RIGHTS
Standing on the Shoulders	Score 1   Score 2	All	Sop	Tune	Tenor
Stand Up Medley Stand Up and Be Counted Make Good Trouble	Score Score	All	Sop 1 Sop 2	Alto	Tenor	Bass	Make Good Trouble Video
Step By Step		All parts with ending	Sop with ending	Alto with ending	Tenor (& Bass) with ending
SYMCA
The Child and the Wall		All	Sop		Tenor	Bass		PALESTINE
The Children Are Always Ours	Score	YouTube link to performance by assorted Sheffield Singers
The Internationale (Billy Bragg version)			Sop	Alto	Tenor	Bass
The People to Their Land	New score	All	Sop	Alto	Tenor	Bass
The Red Flag		All	High		Low
The Red Flag 2025	Score	All	Sop	Tune	Tenor	Bass
The Waverley Polka		Tune
There is no Planet B	Score	All	Sop	Alto	Tenor	Bass
There is Power in a Union SSC version	Score page 1 Score page 2	All	Sop	Alto	Tenor	Bass
This is an Emergency	Score pg 1 Score pg 2 Score pg 3	All	Top	Middle	Low		Extinction Rebellion Choir April2019
To Change Everything	Score
True Blue Rebel	Score							WORKERS’ RIGHTS
Ubuntu	Score	All	High	Middle	Low			SOLIDARITY
Umfaz Olesizotha	Score	All	Sop	Alto	Tenor	Bass	Medley 2014	WOMEN’S RIGHTS
Union Maid		All	Sop	Alto	Tenor and Bass
Unison in Harmony	Score	All	Tune	Alto	Tenor	Bass
Voice of the People
Wake Up		All Parts plus individual parts on Protest in Harmony website
Walk A Mile	Score	All	Sop	Alt	Ten	Bass		REFUGEES
Walking With You			Higher Harmony	Melody	Lower Harmony
Wangari	Score
We Are Building Bridges								SOLIDARITY
We Are One
We Are Sheffield Socialist Choir	Score	All					TuneFinal MidFinal Low	SOLIDARITY
We’re Standing Here	Score	All	Sop	Alto	Tenor	Bass
Welcome Home	Score
We’ll Turn Things Upside Down	New score	All	High	Middle	Low
We’re In A Mess		All with drone	Sop with drone	Alto with drone	Tenor/Bass with drone
We Shall Overcome	Score	All		Middle	Low			PEACE/ANTI-WAR
We Shall Not Give Up The Fight	Score	All	Sop Descant	Alto	Tenor			SOLIDARITY
We Teach Life, Sir	Score	All parts						PALESTINE
We Will Not Be Silenced	Score	All parts
What is Peace to You?								REFUGEES
What A Wonderful World	Score	All	Sop	Alt	Ten	Bass		PUBLIC SERVICES
When Death Was Behind Me	Score							REFUGEES
When the Sun Rises	Score	All	Sop	Alt	Tenor	Bass	Structure
Which Side Are You On? 22 Full	Score	All	Sop	Alto	Tenor	Bass
Which Side Are You On?  Which Side Are You On 2020	Score	All	Sop	Alto	Tenor	Bass	Verse	PUBLIC SERVICES
Which Side Are You On? – for Palestine								PALESTINE
Which Side Are You On – Sainsburys								PALESTINE
Will There Be Singing in the Dark Times		Tune
Woodhall Loch
World on Our Shoulders	Score	All	Sop	Alto	Tenor	Bass
Yes, Yes UCS		Tune Harmony
You Can Be Sure of Shell/BP		All parts
You Won’t Be Fracking Long	Score	All	Sop	Alto	Tenor	Bass		ENVIRONMENT
You’ll Never Walk Alone	Score	All with Bass and Keyboard All – voices only		Middle	Low
Zero Hours							Video	WORKERS’ RIGHTS
Zourouni		All						PALESTINE