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Songs, Music and Storytelling

Songs

The Climate Choir Movement have songs to learn and a growing number of choirs around the UK that you could connect with.

Other suggestions:
Backwater Blues - Bessie Smith
The River is Flowing - Native American song
The River - kids song
When the Levee Breaks – Led Zeppelin

'Old Macdonald' Possible rewording of ‘Old Macdonald had a farm for children with actions

This old river’s full of life
Ee eye ee eye oh
And in its care it has some fish
Ee eye ee eye oh
With a splash splash here and a splash there, here a splash, there a splash, everywhere a splash splash
This old river’s full of life
EE eye ee eye oh

beaver-dive/ kingfisher-zoom/ frog-croak etc

Accompanied with handouts for adults about the actual state of our rivers and seas.

You can find more songs here.

Music & Storytelling

  • Song of the Thames (YouTube 29min) by Sam Lee - singer and song collector.

  • Traditional Native Storytelling - Salmon Boy (YouTube 12min) with Roger Fernandes.

  • The Lost Words Blessing - (YouTube 4min) a song created from Robert Macfarlane's book The Lost Words.

  • Collect stories.

  • Water Stories for Children - You can find a selection of water stories for children here and the beautiful Water Princess here.

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