Chorus songs to join in
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Songs with good (not too complicated) choruses for which it is fun for people to join in (loudly)
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Santa Fe Trail - an Anglicised cowboy song
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A shepherd of the Downs - The Contented Lovers
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My Grandfather's clock - sentimental fun from Henry Work
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Wild Rover, No nay Never - a reformed character, probably
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The True Uncle Tom Cobley - Widecombe Fair from Belstone
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Over the Hills and far away - a recruiting song for the Red coats
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Farewell to the Gold - sung beside the Shotover River, Otago
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Man in the Moon - a jolly life saver when you forget what to sing in company
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What's the life of a man - for those in the autumn of life
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Two Magicians - the shape changing antics of a courtship by lovers with magical powers
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Daddy fox - Up jumped John
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Derby Ram - Didn't he ramble. Louisiana crossbred with Derbyshire
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John Barleycorn - a ri fol day chorus for a very English Harvest song
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Rolling Home - an anthem to end the day on - (written by John Tams)
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Farmer's toast; God Speed the plough, a mug and a singing mug
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Oxenploughing - a song celebrating the old way of ploughing in the West of England
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The Grey Goose and Gander - add your own verses to this old bit of nonsense
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Only Remembered for what we have done - a reflective song
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Sweet Nightingale - a Cornish folk song of courtship
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20
Souling song - begging on All Souls, after Halloween
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Dido Bendigo - a folk song telling of a pack of foxhounds
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Chemical worker's song (Process man) - of work in a hazardous industry, written by Ron Angel
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Jolly Waggoner - a song of contentedness in the face of change
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Old Daddy Fox - a folk song in which the fox wins
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Pleasant and delightful or The Larks they sang melodious - a traditional folk song of separation
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The Derby Ram - an unbelievable folk song from Derbyshire
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Bold Sir Rylas - a song about slaying a wild and magical beast
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All around my hat - Devon version of the song, I will wear the green willow
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What's the life of a man - no more than a simple leaf
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30
Roll Alabama Roll - a sea shanty about a Confederate Privateer during the Civil War.wmv
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Twanky Dillo - or Twankydillo, English folk song from the blacksmith's forge
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Farewell Shanty or Padstow Shanty - a last song before leaving
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Green Fields of France, Willie McBride, No Man's Land - An emotional song of Remembrance
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Home Lad Home - an evocative song of a lost way of life during the First World War
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Miner's Lifeguard (Union Miners) - rousing rallying call
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Tythe Pig (Tithe Pig) - poking fun at authority and the inequity of the tithe system
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37
Old Maui - An old whalers' song for an old wailler, Rolling down to Old Maui
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Farewell Shanty or Padstow Shanty - a last song before leaving
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Bold Riley - songs at a Social Distance 1
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Three craws - with a prelude - songs at a Social Distance 2.
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Up in the morning - It's too cold to be getting up says Burns
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Country Life - merry rambling in the hay
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The Snow falls - A John Tams vision of optimism
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The Beggar - a jolly alcoholic scrounger
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Cool of the day - Jean Ritchie's environmental plea
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Northwest Passage - Stan Rogers classic across the cold of Canada
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47
The Death of Nelson - a hero falls at his finest hour but saves the nation
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The Old Songs, another Steve Thomason song
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Close the Coalhouse Door, the old price of coal
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The Bard, a Steve Thomason song
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Leave her Johnny Leave her
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Salonika - A world War 1 soldier's song
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Sixteen tons - a miner's tough life
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The Miller's Will (The Miller and his three sons) - a rogue passes on his tricks
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Flash company or Yellow handkerchief - song of a doomed pursuit.wmv
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Rosin the Beau - or Rosin the Bow, the end of a happy drinking man
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Gentleman Soldier - a song of warning to young maids
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Little chickens in the garden - the only Yorkshire song I know
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So here's to you - an Alan Bell Song for my friends - song at a social distancing No. 4
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