THE BOOK
Each entry has a link Score. That link takes you to a directory featuring scores, arrangements, and recordings. Most other links are to YouTube videos. (You need to be logged into Google Drive to access the links below.)
This page maintained by Paul G.
The link above takes you to a Google Drive folder that contains our "crowd-sourced" chants and songs collection. Members should add to this collection whenever they come up with or come across new chants to add.
Developing Arrangements
These tunes are in the works
Amazing Grace [G] Score
Buck [C] Score
Danza del Guerrero [C] Score, Rim Bam Bum, Rim Bam Bum Live
Hot Headed Hootenanny [F] Score
I’m Just Another Soldier [Eb] Score, Staple Singers
I Woke Up This Morning With My Mind Stayed on Freedom [C] Score, Freedom Singers
Sixteen Tons/The Rich Man's House [Dm] Score, Tennessee Ernie Ford - 16 Tons, Rich Man's House
Water Fountain [Dm] Score, tUnE-yArDd video, Live
The Core Standards
These are ten songs which most band members can pay at gigs without rehearsal.
They emphasize our New Orleans influence, and are our best and most iconic tunes.
New members should learn these first.
African Marketplace / Homecoming [F] (A. Ibrahim) Score
Feel Like Funkin it Up [Eb] Score
Gospel Medley [Bb] (Closer Walk / I’ll Fly Away / Lord, Lord, Lord) Score
Later Than You Think [Bb] Score, Rebirth
Montserrat Serrat [F] (S Isler) Score
Never Gonna Let You Go [Gm] Score, SL…BB (24:43)
New Orleans Music [Bb] Score, Rebirth
(When the) Saints Go Marching In / Mama Don’t Allow [Bb] Score
Thousand Island [Eb] (Rebirth) Score
The Active Repertoire
These songs are the focus of our rehearsals, and we play many of them at gigs.
1612 [C] Score, Vulfpeck, Groove Catchers
Ballad of Kami Jean [Eb] Score, Mama Digdown’s BB
Bourbon Street [Ab] (Paul Barbarin) Score
By and By [F] Score
(On My Way To) Canaan Land [Cm] Score, Denise Gordon
Cayuco [Bb] Score, Grupo Fantasma
Do Whatcha Wanna [Eb] Score
Dumpster Bump [Bbm] Score
For the Love Of Money [Bbm] (O’Jay’s) Score
Grazin in the Grass [F] (Masekela) Score
Gross [Db/Bb minor] Score, Balkan Beat Box
Groovulation [Bb] Score, YoungBloods, SL…BB video
Hurricane Season [Gm] Score, Trombone Shorty
La Misma Cancion [C] Score
Lovely Day [Eb] Score, Soul Rebels
Mardi Gras [Bb] Score
Mercy, Mercy, Mercy [Bb] (C. Adderley) Score
Planet Gibbous [Bbm] Score
Riverside [Bb] Score
Sidewinder [Eb] (L. Morgan/Skatalites) Score
Sweet Dreams [C] Score, Soul Rebels
That’s A Plenty [Dm] Score
Unclean Waters [Dm] Score
Yo No Se [F] (Rob Espino Y Sus Amigos De Nueva Orleans) Score
The Dusty List
Run through these tunes at least once before practice before performing
The Vault
We played these at one time...
Amour Loire Et Beaute [] Score
Andy’s Song [?] (What Cheer?) MP3
Baby Elephant Walk-Flintstones [] (H. Mancini) MP3
Beds are Burning [Eb] Score, Midnight Oil
Bella Ciao [Gm] (Trad) Score
Better Git It In Your Soul [] (Mingus) Score
Blue Pepper [] (D. Ellington) Score & MP3
Bubamara (Trad.) [Bb] Score
Bumper To Bumper [Cm] (J Muslin) Score & MP3
Bunny Island [Bb] Score & MP3
Cantastoria [] Score & MP3
Caravan [Fm] (D. Ellington) Score & MP3
Carnival Time [Eb] Score
Chautauqua Bump & Grind () Score
Cissy Strut [] (Meters) Score & MP3
Creole [] (M Santamaria) Score
Dance to the Music [Ab] Score, Sly
Der Glater Bulgar [] () MP3
Didn’t He Ramble [Bb] Score, Louis Armstrong
Dreamboat [] [Ab] Score & MP3
El Pueblo [] () Score & MP3
Eyes On The Prize – Give Peace A Chance [] (A Wine / J Lennon) Score
Fortune’s Favor [Bb] Score & MP3
Funeral March [Fm] Score
Happy [Fm] Scores, Pharrell Williams
Happy Birthday [C] (Hill, arr. Field) Score
Holiday Mambo [] (Machito) Score & MP3
Holilili [] () Score & MP3
Honk If You Honk! [Bb] (K Field) Score & MIDs
I Got It [] (K Field) Score
Ice Cream [Bb] Score & MP3
Indiana [] (Hanley/MacDonald) Score & Lyrics
It’s A Sin [] () MP3
It’s All Over Now [Bb] Score & MP3
Khosn Kale Mazel Tov [] (Trad.) Score and MP3
Kid Ory Medley [Bb] MP3
Leftist Marching Band Songs Score
Let’s Go Get Em [Bb] Score , Rebirth
Liza Jane [Bb] Score & MP3
Midnight Ska [] () Score & MP3
The Mooche [] (Ellington) Score & MP3
Muskrat Ramble[Bb] Score & MP3
Never Grow Old [D] Score, Aretha Franklin, Statler Brothers, George Banton
Oh Chanukah [C] () Score
Oh, Didn’t He Ramble [] (Trad) Score & MP3
Old Rugged Cross [] (George Bennard) Score
Parade of Numbers (K Field) Score, Video, Snakes, Ken
Parade Riffs [] (M Martin) Score
Pick Up the Pieces [Eb] Score, Average White Band
Sat [Am] Score & MP3
Sbandata 2018 Scores Score, Ya Rayah (Banda Comunale)
Second Line [Bb] Score, W Marsalis
(New) Second Line [F] (P Barbarin) Score & MP3
Silver Wedding [] (Di Zilberne Khasene) Score & MP3
Sing On [] (Paul Barbarin) Score & MP3
Sister Rose [] (A. Ibrahim) MP3
Somerville Second Line [Eb] (Ruffin/Field/Martin) Score
Song For My Father (Horace Silver) MP3
Street Fighting Man [] () Score & MP3
Sunny Side of the Street [C] Score & Lyrics
Sweet Bye & Bye [] () Score
Syeeda’s Song Flute [] (Coltrane) Score & MP3
That’s Enough of That Stuff [C] Score
This Little Light of Mine [] () Score
Tiger Rag (Orig Dixieland Band) Score
Tootie Ma [F] Score, Tom Waits, Danny Barker
Tracksuit [Db] Score, Minor Mishaps
Tremé Second Line [] (Kermit Ruffin) Score & MP3
Trombonium [] () Score & MP3
War [] (E. Starr) MP3
Water No Get Enemy (F Kuti) Score & MP3
Watermelon Man (H Hancock) Score & MP3
Weed Whacker [C] Score
We Three Kings [C] Score
We Will Rock You [Ab] Score, Queen
Xinga La Pula [] () Score & MP3