If you wish to purchase Days of Gold, one of the songbooks of Calicanto Associates, which has the chantey South Australia, contact me via the Forum private messages and I'll get you ordering details.It is also available in many museum bookstores etc. Or visit:
http://www.bayareawebdesign.com/ca/
and look for the Calicanto Associates info. If its incomplete, do email me. Its a very old site that they have not revised lately.
Days of Gold has 57 songs with notes, some dances etc all involving the California Gold Rush and including sea chanteys and songs from Native Californian, Spanish, Anglo-American, South American, European, Hawaiian and Chinese songs among others.You can get the accompanying 2-cd, which has yours truly and the other two Weekenders performing South Australia, but in your case you just need the music and some kid-friendly lyrics, which our songbooks are designed for (California Fourth Grade History Curriculum for public schools).
I don't make anything for this as I am just the Music director, not a founding partner but we definitely have that song, fyi. There also may be words in Stan Huegels Sea Chantey book, but you would need to order that from Lark in the Morning or perhaps one of the folk music outfits back east (Andy's Front Hall, etc).
Best wishes. good luck with the kids. there's nothing like hearing them sing and have fun.We played an assembly down in Santa Cruz in fact at an elementary school about two years ago.
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. Whenever someone complains, I can say (very primly, of course!) "It's very important that I practice...we can't let the kids down, now can we?" Most of the music they use is simple stuff..."South Australia," "Drunken Sailor," "Shepherds Hey" and so forth...stuff I already know and just have to get back in the swing on.
) I'll probably check that out. 