I found the copy

Now scanned and in the Gallery, and you can also get it here …

Beethoven’s 5th

Practice Tracks for Lay Me Down

Tempo = 125

1. Soprano –
2. Alto –
3. Tenor –
4. Bass –
5. SATB –
6. SATB & click –

António Zambujo

Practice Tracks for Bogoroditse Devo

soprano –

alto –

tenor –

bass –

And the score …

Bogoroditse Devo

Dougie MacLean – Caledonia

Dougie and his group singing the song.

And the score with lyrics …

Caledonia & lyrics

Adriano Secco arranged the version we’re using in choir. He’s done much more besides, a lot of nice work.

He’s made audio tracks of the various SATB parts, all of them. I clicked the button for the Skye SATB A Capella Tenor track and found out what I was supposed to be singing. Very interesting.

His website www.adrianoseccomusic.it has Skye and many other of his arrangements freely available.

Judy was right, the French lyrics of Michelle do make sense …

Michelle, ma belle sont des mots qui vont très bien ensemble. Très bien ensemble.
Michelle my beautiful/lovely these are words that go very well together. Very well together.

You’ll find some discussion on this Yahoo group.

hi all
The day has arrived! Exciting!
I’ll see you at 4.45pm for a quick run of Lay me Down, before Jane and James need us. Please find below a summary of the form for Lay me Down, for clarification.

LAY ME DOWN

FORM:

ALL SING: Vs.1: Lay me down in Mother..
ALL SING: Vs.2: Brother smoke, sister water…
CHORUS UNISON Tune: ooh, grandfather sun, ooh grandmother moon//…(2 beat break!)
Straight In 3 PARTS: Lay me down, lay me down, lay me down, lay me down…Ooh lay me down, lay me down
Repeat in UNISON: Lay me down, lay me down, lay me down, lay me down…Ooh lay me down, lay me down

ALL SING Vs 3: Mother Earth and Father Sky
ALL SING Vs 4: Lay me down in Mother Earth
CHORUS In 3 PARTS: ooh. Grandfather sun, grandmother moon
(continue parts with no breath into next bit)
In 3 PARTS: Lay me down, lay me down, etc…
Repeat in UNISON: Lay me down. Lay me down..
Tag x3: Ooh, lay me down , lay me down (last time unaccompanied)

I know that you will sing it beautifully and with the usual Mainesong feeling, and I am looking forward to the night.
See you –  Wendy

The lyrics for the Festival songs are now in compact form on this one song sheet …

Festival 2017 lyrics