ITT Children’s Songbook

Over the last 25 years we have written many songs for children. The musical ideas and the lyrics have come from the groups we work with and in the original recordings you can hear the composers/lyricists performing their songs. It was always our hope that others would enjoy singing these songs as much as we did, so to mark our 25^th anniversary, we would like to give YOU a gift: the chance to sing these songs in your homes, schools, community choirs or wherever you think they might work. If you do, we’d love to hear about it, so please do tag us on social media or email info@irenetaylortrust.com

The young people we consulted told us these songs are probably most relevant to those between 5 and 9 years old, however those younger and older may also enjoy singing them.

In the individual songs, whilst we have indicated where there could be solos, please do feel free to interpret the songs in your own way, to suit the groups that will be singing them. For example, in the song, ‘Things to do’, you could make up your own ‘things to do and not to do’ for the verses. The ones written in the musical score can be used as a guide but to make them relevant to your groups, please feel free to rewrite them.

For each of the songs, we have included:

the full lyrics & score
the original audio version, to give you an idea of how the song sounded when it was first written
an audio instrumental part if you wish to use that as backing track