Sing Up
Song Bank
Songs, music and lyrics to teach and inspire your children
Magazine 9 songs
Get healthy, get singing!
Songs for Recycle Week
In this section
For each song, you will find:
- Performance, echo and backing tracks
- Lyrics, song sheets and sheet music
- Activities to help you get started
Log in
Reasons to register
- Download songs and music
- Create your own bank of favourites
- Order your free Sing Up magazine
- Get tailored training and support
Results: Song Bank (103)
Refined: History [x]
Adeste fideles (O come all ye faithful)
A triumphant Christmas carol in its original Latin, Adeste fideles is a call to celebrate and praise the birth of Jesus.
- Accompaniment: Accompanied
- Key Stage: KS2
- Musical Element: legato
- Year Group: 3 , 4 , 5 , 6
- Subject: History , Religious education
- Style: Christmas song
- Vocal Format: Unison
- Vocal Range: an 8ve
Baa, baa, black sheep
This is a familiar, well-loved nursery rhyme. It can be sung in unison or as a round in two parts.
- Accompaniment: Unaccompanied
- Key Stage: KS1 , KS2 , Foundation
- Musical Element: major key , scale passages
- Year Group: Reception , 1 , 2 , 3 , 4
- Subject: English , History
- Style: Nursery rhyme
- Vocal Format: Unison (optional two-part round)
- Vocal Range: an 8ve
Bad guys
This honky-tonk song is taken from the musical Bugsy Malone, based on 1920s Chicago. The gangsters, showgirls and bar staff are played by children who carry custard-firing guns.
- Accompaniment: Accompanied
- Key Stage: KS2 , KS2/KS3
- Musical Element: chromaticism
- Year Group: 3 , 4 , 5 , 6
- Subject: History , Physical education , PSHE & Citizenship
- Style: Musical theatre
- Vocal Format: Unison
- Vocal Range: a 12th
Baloo baleerie
This is a beautiful lullaby from the Shetland Islands, to be enjoyed sung quietly. It will make you feel really calm and peaceful.
- Accompaniment: Accompanied
- Key Stage: KS2
- Musical Element: verse and chorus , slurs , major key , Scottish snap
- Year Group: 3 , 4 , 5 , 6
- Subject: English , History
- Style: Folk song , Lullaby
- Vocal Format: Unison
- Vocal Range: a 6th
- Accessibility/SEN: Braille scores
Basin Street blues
A relaxed but upbeat Dixieland blues, this song is ideal for singing on a warm summer’s day!
- Accompaniment: Accompanied
- Key Stage: KS2
- Musical Element: syncopation , blue notes
- Year Group: 3 , 4 , 5 , 6
- Subject: Geography , History , PSHE & Citizenship
- Style: Blues
- Vocal Format: Two-part
- Vocal Range: a 9th
Bobby Shafto
This is an old folk song from Northumbria. It is about an 18th Century politician who enjoyed refined clothes and hobbies.
- Accompaniment: Accompanied
- Key Stage: KS1 , Foundation
- Musical Element: slurs , major key
- Year Group: Reception , 1 , 2
- Subject: History
- Style: Folk song
- Vocal Format: Unison
- Vocal Range: an 8ve
- Accessibility/SEN: Braille scores
By and by
A great spiritual song to get everybody’s toes tapping.
- Accompaniment: Accompanied
- Key Stage: KS2 , KS2/KS3
- Musical Element: syncopation
- Year Group: 3 , 4 , 5 , 6
- Subject: History , PSHE & Citizenship
- Style: Spiritual
- Vocal Format: Two-part
- Vocal Range: an 11th
Ca’ Hawkie
Northumberland is a border county (next to Scotland) and very rural. Once, the wealth of the families in this region was measured by the number of cattle they had. This song is about Hawkie, pronounced ‘Hackie’ – a cow, or ‘coo’, as they say in Northumberland, who is stuck on the far side of a ‘burn’, or stream, and is too ‘sweir’ (shy) to cross the ‘wattor’ (water), to come and be milked.
- Accompaniment: Accompanied , Unaccompanied
- Key Stage: KS1 , KS2
- Musical Element: verse and chorus , key change (modulation)
- Year Group: 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6
- Subject: English , Geography , History
- Style: Folk song
- Vocal Format: Unison
- Vocal Range: a 9th
Canterbury cloisters
This peaceful and reflective song is part of the Canterbury Cathedral pack from the School Trip Singalong. Try evoking the contemplative mood of the cloister at Canterbury by singing it gently, walking in time to the slow pulse.
- Accompaniment: Accompanied , Unaccompanied
- Key Stage: KS2
- Year Group: 3 , 4 , 5 , 6
- Subject: History , Religious education
- Vocal Format: Unison (optional two-part)
- Vocal Range: a 9th
- Teaching Tool Type: Guide
Chanukkah, Chanukkah
This is a song for the Jewish festival of Chanukkah (Festival of Lights), celebrated over a period of 8 days every December.
- Accompaniment: Accompanied
- Key Stage: KS1 , KS2
- Musical Element: verse and chorus
- Year Group: 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6
- Subject: English , History , Religious education
- Style: Folk song , Faith song
- Vocal Format: Unison
- Vocal Range: a 6th
- Accessibility/SEN: Braille scores
