Sing free/Red River Valley

It is easy to change this song's tempo and key. If you want to contribute useful alternatives, leave a message at User talk:Guy vandegrift.
More lyrics are available at irish-folk-songs.com, Wikipedia, and dazwatsonmusic.weebly.com

Children's version: Ant and Grasshopper

I picked this old folksong because Cocomelon has a copyrighted variation called "The Ant and the Grasshoper". The lyrics can be found online at: babyrhymes.com, medium.com, or lyricshost.com,Mylyrics4free.com

G major

${\language "english" \new PianoStaff %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \transpose c c % \transpose c c is default %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% << \new Staff\relative c'{\set Staff.midiInstrument= #"reed organ" \clef treble \key g \major %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %%% Other instruments: #"reed organ" | #"lead 2" % %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \time 4/4 \tempo 4=80 % Notes r2 r4 d8 g8 %1 b4 b8 b8 b4 a8 b8 %2 a4 g2. %3 b4 g8 b d4 c8 b %4 a2. d8 c %5 b4 b8 a g4 a8 b %6 d4 c4 ~c4 e,8 e8 %7 d4 fs8 g8 a4 b8 a %8 g1 %9 } \addlyrics{ From this val -- ley they say you are go -- ing. We will_miss your_bright eyes and sweet smile, For they say you are ta -- king the sun -- shine, That has bright -- ened our path -- way a while. } \new ChordNames {\chordmode {\clef bass % Chords g,2 g, %1 g d:7 %2 g, g, %3 g g:7 %4 d:7 c %5 g g:7 %6 c c %7 d:7 g %8 c g %9 } }>>}$

Warmup

Most of us need to work on our voice and intonation.

${\language "english" \new PianoStaff %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \transpose c c % \transpose c c is default %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% << \new Staff\relative c'{\set Staff.midiInstrument= #"reed organ" \clef treble \key g \major %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %%% Other instruments: #"reed organ" | #"lead 2" % %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \time 4/4 \tempo 4=80 % Notes d2 d' d, e fs g a b c d d b a g fs e d } >>}$

Chords only

This can be your "band" after you learn the song!

${\language "english" \new PianoStaff %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \transpose c c % \transpose c c is default %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% << \new Staff\relative c,,{\set Staff.midiInstrument= #"reed organ" \clef subbass \key g \major %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %%% Other instruments: #"reed organ" | #"lead 2" % %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \time 4/4 \tempo 4=80 % Notes r1 r r r r r r r r } \addlyrics{ From this val -- ley they say you are go -- ing. We will_miss your_bright eyes and sweet smile, For they say you are ta -- king the sun -- shine, That has bright -- ened our path -- way a while. } \new ChordNames {\chordmode {\clef bass % Chords g,2 g, %1 g d:7 %2 g, g, %3 g g:7 %4 d:7 c %5 g g:7 %6 c c %7 d:7 g %8 c g %9 } }>>}$

C major

This version might better suite your pitch range. If you need it in another key leave a message at User talk:Guy vandegrift

${\language "english" \new PianoStaff %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \transpose c f %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% << \new Staff\relative c'{\set Staff.midiInstrument= #"reed organ" \clef treble \key g \major %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %%% Other instruments: #"reed organ" | #"lead 2" % %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \time 4/4 \tempo 4=80 % Notes r2 r4 d8 g8 %1 b4 b8 b8 b4 a8 b8 %2 a4 g2. %3 b4 g8 b d4 c8 b %4 a2. d8 c %5 b4 b8 a g4 a8 b %6 d4 c4 ~c4 e,8 e8 %7 d4 fs8 g8 a4 b8 a %8 g1 %9 } \addlyrics{ From this val -- ley they say you are go -- ing. We will_miss your_bright eyes and sweet smile, For they say you are ta -- king the sun -- shine, That has bright -- ened our path -- way a while. } \new ChordNames {\chordmode {\clef bass % Chords g,2 g, %1 g d:7 %2 g, g, %3 g g:7 %4 d:7 c %5 g g:7 %6 c c %7 d:7 g %8 c g %9 } }>>}$

Warmup

Most of us need to work on our voice and intonation.

${\language "english" \new PianoStaff %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \transpose c f %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% << \new Staff\relative c'{\set Staff.midiInstrument= #"reed organ" \clef treble \key g \major %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %%% Other instruments: #"reed organ" | #"lead 2" % %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \time 4/4 \tempo 4=80 % Notes d2 d' d, e fs g a b c d d b a g fs e d } >>}$

Chords only

${\language "english" \new PianoStaff %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \transpose c f %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% << \new Staff\relative c,,{\set Staff.midiInstrument= #"reed organ" \clef subbass \key g \major %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %%% Other instruments: #"reed organ" | #"lead 2" % %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \time 4/4 \tempo 4=80 % Notes r1 r r r r r r r r } \addlyrics{ From this val -- ley they say you are go -- ing. We will_miss your_bright eyes and sweet smile, For they say you are ta -- king the sun -- shine, That has bright -- ened our path -- way a while. } \new ChordNames {\chordmode {\clef bass % Chords g,2 g, %1 g d:7 %2 g, g, %3 g g:7 %4 d:7 c %5 g g:7 %6 c c %7 d:7 g %8 c g %9 } }>>}$