Wednesday evening 6.30-8pm Barnes Room
Friday afternoon 4-5.30pm Memorial Hall
Current Repertoire: Strong, The Watchman, People Come Together, The Subway, Ama Ibuo Iye, Old Dutch, Rowing Song, The Wellerman, The Aeroplane, Shosholoza, Kaki Lambe, Hine E Hine, Shower the People & Rock The Boat.
Older repertoire: I Don’t Want to Talk About It, Shallow, Janie Mama, What Was I Made For, Fragile, White Winter Hymnal, Nurruwiyi, Weather With You, Mr Moon, Exile, Caravan of Love, Yil Lull, Let it Go, and Listen to the Music.
TERMS & PAYMENT
Term Oct to Dec 2026
Wednesday nights: 21 & 28 Oct. 4, 11 (no class 18th) & 25 Nov, 2 Dec.
Friday afternoons: 23 & 30 Oct. 6, 13 (no class 20th) & 27 Nov, 4 Dec.
Cost: 6 weeks $120, 5 weeks $110, 4 weeks $95, and casual $25
Let us know if you want join and we will invoice you. Payment is via Direct Deposit.
REPERTOIRE
Warm Ups
When-the-Night-Falls-JRoseJazz.pdf
Strong by London Grammar NEW
This arrangement is written by Gina Tedeschi for The Common People Choir
The Watchman, an original song by Ruth McCrae
The Watchman High ish part.pdf
The Watchman main melody.pdf (alto)
Chandelier by Sia
People Come Together links not working
People-Come-Together-all-parts.pdf
listen here …….People-Come-Together-all-parts.mp3
People-Come-Together-soprano.pdf
listen here …..People-Come-Togther-soprano.mp3
listen here ….. People-Come-Together-Alto.mp3
People-Come-Together-Tenor.pdf
listen here ………. People-Come-Together-tenor.mp3
listen here…..People-Come-Together-bass-.mp3
The Subway Chappell Roan links not working
If you prefer musical notation then print off these 2 page versions
The Subway chords One Page
If you prefer just the lyrics and not the notes then print this one page version
Shower the People James Taylor
Old Dutch by Bonny Light Horseman
Arrangement Maggie and Elsie Rigby
The Original….
Rowing Song Patty Griffin
Shosholoza an African folk song
This version is a bit different but you get the gist!
The Aeroplane Tim Minchen links not working
another arrangement from Jacki Stewart!!!!
Here are the parts separately so that you can sing along with me!
The-Aeroplane-sop-part.mp3 sorry sopranos, I don’t have a good high reach!
Kaki Lambe
I Don’t Want to Talk About It
Rod Stewart song arranged by Jacki Stewart (no relation) Thanks Jacki!
Rock The Boat
Hine E Hine
Traditional Maori song, here’s our version.
What Was I Made For
What-Was-I-Made-For-high.pdf only for sopranos (reaches a High E)
What-Was-I-Made-For-mid.pdf average women’s voice- alto and mezo-sop
What-Was-I-Made-For-low.pdf for women with a low voice and men with a high voice -tenor
What-Was-I-Made-For-bass.pdf for men with a low voice, not for women
Billie-Eilish-What-Was-I-Made-For-Mixed-choir.pdf This contains the melody, and is very long (20 Pages). Just view this online.
EXILE by Swift, Vernon and Bowery
links not working
Soprano (high) part (5 pages) Exile-for-choir-SopTenor.pdf
Mezzo-soprano, mid to high part (5 pages) Exile-for-choir-MesoTenor.pdf
Alto (mid) part (5 pages) Exile-for-choir-AltTenor.pdf
Tenor (low) part (3 pages) Exile-for-choir-Tenor-only.pdf
All parts (9 pages) Exile-for-choir-all-parts.pdf
White Winter Hymnal (WWH)
Weather With You
Inanay
Mr Moon
Nurruwiyi
A song in the Walpiri language of the Tanami Desert people
Lead (tenor) part Nurruwiyi pdf
For listening…………………………..Lead (tenor) part mp3
For listening…………………………..Alto part mp3
For listening…………………………..sop part mp3
Caravan of Love
Tonight You Belong to Me
In This Heart
Jump to 1 minute for the singing to start! There is too much talking at the front!
Tongo
A traditional canoe song from the Solomon Islands. Sung by people traveling by canoe among the islands. Tongo means mangrove.
Sung by a choir in Texas!
Ho Taru Koi
A fun crazy song to try is Ho Taru Koi a Japanese folk song sort of!
Don’t be freaked out by this version. We won’t do it so fast!
Babylon
Banaha
Amen Siakudumisa
A South African song attributed to S.C. Molefe. Easy to sing and joyous!
Let It Go
If you don’t know how to read music don’t worry about it. You will have a leader for your part who will guide you.
Waterfalls TLC
Here is our One Song Sing video from last year
Khumbaya
Check out the Soweto Gospel Choir do a fantastic version of this song. We will slowly work our way through this song. Download the music below.
Yil Lull
Another song we will do is Yil Lull by Joe Geia, have a listen and print off the lyrics.
Listen to the Music by Doobie Bros
We are going too sing this lovely song so you need to download and or print one or all of these pdfs for the lyrics!
Listen to the parts and select which one you want to sing.
Shallow
Our version
Listen to the parts and select which one you want to sing. My apologies for the soprano part (I can’t hit some of the notes).
It Must Have Been Love by Roxette
Our version