Cambridge Festival Choir 2024
(+ Anna Tabbush)
Sessions in The Den:
Friday, Saturday & Sunday: 10.00-11.30
Sharing performance - Stage 3
Sunday 15.25
(this is different from the published programme time)
(be prepared to meet from 14.45 by the side of the stage by the hot dog stand)
The Cambridge Festival Choir is open to absoutely everyone, no matter your singing experience. We'll start with some gentle warm-ups and learn a few simple songs in harmony. Come to as many sessions as you can make to prepare for our Sunday evening sharing performance. If you're able to be there for all 3 sessions, even better.
Scroll down for song lyrics.
The Lark In The Morning
Trad. English Folk song arranged by Anna Tabbush (ROUD 151)
Lay still my fond shepherd and don't you rise yet
It's a fine dewy morning and besides, my love, it is wet
Oh no, my bright Floro, it is no such thing
It's a bright sun a-shining and the lark is on the wing
Oh the lark in the morning she rises from her nest
And she mounts in the air with the dew about her breast
And like the pretty ploughboy she'll whistle and sing
And at night she’ll return to her own nest again
When the ploughboy has done all he's got for to do
He trips to the meadows where the grass is all cut down
The nightingale she whistles upon the hawthorn spray
And the moon is a-shining upon the new-mown hay
Oh the lark in the morning she rises from her nest
And she mounts in the air with the dew about her breast
And like the pretty ploughboy she'll whistle and sing
And at night she’ll return to her own nest again
Never One Thing
by May Erlewine
oo, oo, oo, oo x2
I’m the underbelly, I am the claw
Never one thing, no not one thing at all
I’m a street fighter, I’m a prayer for peace
I’m a holy roller, I’m a honey bee
I am the truth, I am the lie,
I am the ground, I am the sky,
I am the silence, I am the call
Never one thing, no not one thing at all
I’m the underbelly, I am the claw
Never one thing, no not one thing at all
I’m a street fighter, I’m a prayer for peace
I’m a holy roller, I’m a honey bee
I am hope, I am defeat,
I am broken, I am complete
I am the grace, I am the fall
Never one thing, no not one thing at all
I’m the underbelly, I am the claw
Never one thing, no not one thing at all
I’m a street fighter, I’m a prayer for peace
I’m a holy roller, I’m a honey bee
oo, oo, oo, oo
I am a mother, I am the child
I am the meek, I am the wild
I am the witch, I am the saint
I am alive, never one thing
I'm the underbelly, I am the claw etc...
x2
oo, oo, oo, oo etc...
Au Revoir
by Anna Tabbush
This is not goodbye
This is au revoir
Though we part our ways
Take me in your heart
You’re not alone
When we’re miles apart
This is not goodbye
This is au revoir
Ben & Dom: singing weekends
CIRENCESTER
25-27 OCT 2024
DERBYSHIRE DALES
6-8 JUNE 2025
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