A country sing-a-long for everyone!
A song children love to sing, clap and tap.
Country sounds of lively violin, banjo and guitar.
The story behind the song
Sing Together is a celebration of making music with friends and family.
Jo Steel wrote this song for children attending the Ukubebe Early Childhood classes. It was popular with her young students, as they enjoyed improvising new verses with their own lyrics and playing percussion instruments. Even the babies loved singing their own emerging words, ‘here’s a song the babies sing, lah-lah, mama, dada!’
Sung to the tune of poplar folk song Lil’ Liza Jane, this piece is refreshing and inviting, with the timeless qualities of traditional folk music.
A perfect choice for a children’s group to perform, Ukubebe class pre-schoolers, Victoria Slocombe (4) and Alice Render (4), are heard singing, along with Jo’s ukulele students and siblings, Tasman Boswell (8) and Saskia Boswell (12).
Jo’s family members can also be heard in this track: niece Olive Miller (14), Jo’s daughter, Jessica O’Donnell, and daughter Bridget O’Donnell plays violin.
lyrics
Lyrics
Here’s a song that we can sing, lah lah, la-lah
This little song that we can sing lah lah, la-lah
Sing together, lah lah, la-lah
Sing together, lah lah, la-lah
Here’s a song the children sing, lah lah, la-lah
This little song the children sing, lah lah, la-lah
Sing together, lah lah, la-lah
Sing together, lah lah, la-lah
Here’s a song that we can clap
This little song that we can clap
Clap together
Clap together
Here’s a song that we can tap
This little song that we can tap
Tap together
Tap together
Here’s a song that we can sing, lah lah, la-lah
This little song that we can sing lah lah, la-lah
Sing together, lah lah, la-lah
Sing together, lah lah, la-lah
credits
from Watermelon Jazz,
released October 1, 2021
Lyrics: Jo Steel
Music: traditional folk tune ‘Lil Liza Jane
Arrangement : Misha Mullov-Abbado
Vocals: Jo Steel, Jessica O'Donnell and children's chorus: Victoria Slocombe (4), Alice Render (4), Tasman Boswell (8), Saskia Boswell (12) and Olive Miller (14)
Piano: Liam Dunachie
Acoustic & Electric Guitars: Nick Goodwin
Banjo: Cosmo Sheldrake
Violin: Bridget O’Donnell
Double Bass: Misha Mullov-Abbado
Drums: Scott Chapman
Co-produced by Jo Steel and Misha Mullov-Abbado
Edited and mixed by Misha Mullov-Abbado
Mastered by Donal Whelan at Hafod Mastering, Wales
Vocals recorded by Josh Wermut at XO Studios, Sydney
All instruments recorded & engineered by Misha Mullov-Abbado, London
Album artwork by Katherine Hall at Design & Opinion, Sydney
Jo Steel has combined her love of work as an early childhood educator and musician to
develop Ukubebe
Music: a specialist early
childhood music program in Sydney. Jo's dream is that her second album Watermelon Jazz, will touch the lives of families with young children: that they will sing, dance, be uplifted and inspired in a shared love of fabulous music and the great sounds of jazz....more
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