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May Morning
1 May 2020 @ 8:00 am - 8:30 am
One of the great traditions of this great city of ours is to celebrate May Morning, with the choir singing from the top of Magdalen College tower at 6.00am to welcome in the spring. We can’t do that this year. We can however still celebrate the coming of Spring, and we can celebrate our wonderful and diverse range of key workers in our community in and around Oxford.
Your local community band, Horns of Plenty, invite you to join in and welcome the Spring from your own home. On Friday 1st May at 8.00am Horns of Plenty band members will start playing the tune ‘Somewhere Over The Rainbow’ all over the city from our own doors and windows and we hope you’ll all lean out the window, or stand on your steps and join in singing, playing, humming….
We’ve chosen to play ‘Somewhere Over the Rainbow’ because it has existing links to the Corona virus community, links to last year’s May Morning choir singing and to celebrate the diversity of our great city. More than ever this year the lyrics seem apt.
You can find the words, the sheet music for various instruments in concert C, Bb and Eb, and the chords for ukulele or guitar by using this Dropbox link .
Any instrument will do. Or sing! This is the basic tune. If you’re able, please feel free to embellish it as you feel appropriate.
Most importantly, please join in and encourage all your neighbours, friends and networks across the city to join us in making sure that May Morning is celebrated in Oxford this year.
Day: Friday 1st May
Time: 8.00am
Where: At home from your front door, windows or garden.
See which streets have already told us they are taking part
You can add your street here
Lyrics
Somewhere over the rainbow, way up high
There’s a land that I heard of, once in a lullaby
Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue
And the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true
Someday I’ll wish upon a star
and wake up where the clouds are far behind me
Where troubles melt like lemon drops,
away above the chimney tops, that’s where you’ll find me
Somewhere over the rainbow bluebirds fly
birds fly over the rainbow why then oh why can’t I?
….
If happy little bluebirds fly
beyond the rainbow why, oh why, can’t I?