Pirates!

This song is about pirates — they’re scary, bold and have a special flag so we know they’re coming!

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

Used by permission of Faber Music

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Key stage KS1, KS2

Year group 1, 2, 3, 4

Subject English, History

SEN/Accessibility Slower backing tracks

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Vocal range Medium (around an octave)

Musical format Unison
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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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Youth Music

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Junior Songscape: Earth, Sea and Sky

by Lin Marsh

Faber Music

This is a diverse collection of 25 imaginative, original songs by Lin Marsh exploring the themes of earth, sea and sky. The songs are arranged progressively and can be used as the basis for a complete school project or individually as in a conventional song book.

‘Lin’s songs are a delight to teach: the catchy tunes and sense of imagery inspire the pupils and capture their imaginations. We have used the songs as a basis for literacy, art, technology, dance, geography and science … so far!’

Wendy Reynolds, Sampford Primary School
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Audio information

The audio track was recorded specially for the Sing Up programme by Farnham Youth Choir and the Academy of Contemporary Music, mixed and mastered by Nic Rowley at Vandborg studios. The backing track was created specially for the Sing Up programme by Nic Rowley.

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.

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Master Spooner Report this comment

Posted 15th Feb 2012 06:40

we do this at school It is so cool

Mrs Leigh Report this comment

Posted 27th May 2011 08:47

Thank you from the pupils at The Birches. we asked for a pirate song to be put up and now here it is and the kids love it.

Miss Dunderdale-smith Report this comment

Posted 5th Feb 2011 11:40

the older ones loved it but the three olds wanted there mummys!!!!

Mrs Clements Report this comment

Posted 3rd Jan 2011 10:15

The children love singing this song - it gives the opportunity to perform and tell the story with actions and vigour as well as excitment and suspence. It compliments and enhances themes across the curriculum.

St.Thomas' C.E.Primary School Blackburn Lancashire

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