Donkey riding

This is a traditional sea shanty from Canada. It’s not actually about riding donkeys at all! The ‘donkey’ was an engine that sailors used to help them load timber onto the deck.

Written by Lin Marsh Used by permission of Youth Music and Faber Music

Traditional Canadian

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Key stage KS1, KS2

Year group 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Subject Geography

SEN/Accessibility Braille scores, Slower backing tracks

Copyright/Public domain (PD) Public domain songs (PD)

Vocal range Medium (around an octave)

Musical format Unison
- Donkey riding (notes and activities)

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Song Writer Biography

Lin Marsh

Lin Marsh trained at Trinity College of Music and London University, later gaining an MA in Performance Arts at Middlesex University. She has worked extensively in music education and currently directs the Oxfordshire Youth Music Theatre.

Lin is also a composer and has written for BBC children’s programmes for both television and radio. She composed and directed the music for Where are the Children Now? as part of the Royal Opera House Education programme in December 1998 and works regularly with organisations such as the London Mozart Players, Birmingham Symphony Hall Education and the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

Her songbook series for schools, Songscape and Junior Songscape, are published by Faber Music. As a voice specialist, Lin works throughout the country running courses for teachers on singing, performance and composing skills and directs many choral festivals for all key stages. Lin works on many commissions for young people, composing both choral works and music theatre pieces, and has worked for the National Youth Music Theatre as a musical director for the production of Charlie in Buxton, Along Came Man, Song of the Earth, Brilliant the Dinosaur in Edinburgh and The Ballad of Salomon Pavey at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London.

Lin is much in demand for vocal coaching linked to music theatre singing and works both in the UK and abroad with groups of teachers, choral societies and young performers. Her book The Show Must Go On! co-written with Wendy Cook is a handbook for teachers giving advice on music theatre skills and the process of rehearsal to performance. Their piece Torchbearers was selected as a finalist in the Vivian Ellis awards 2000.

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Audio information

The audio tracks were recorded specially for the Sing Up programme by St Joseph’s Preparatory Choir and the Academy of Contemporary Music, mixed and mastered by Ron Knights at mediagrove.com. The backing track was created specially for the Sing Up programme by Ben Tompsett.

Copyright information

All copyright music in the Sing Up programme is used by permission. The songwriters and/or copyright holders have been remunerated under due licensing arrangements. Find out more about copyright by visiting the UK Music and Sound Rights websites.