I am the lyricist of two songs – London Town and Cheers To Beer which were written as anthems for people to sing together.
One of my favourite activities is going to the pub to drink beer and sing around the piano. That’s why I wrote Cheers To Beer, to sing with others in a pub or festival whilst drinking a glass of beer.
Song bundles for both songs are available for purchase (score, lyrics, karaoke backing track).
I love singing with other people because it creates community and makes us happy. Just picture football fans on the terraces singing their team’s song to encourage the players.
Singing together is good for mental and physical health too.
I always listen to lyrics and am often in awe of the lyricist and their skill in telling a story, often with complex rhymes. Stephen Sondheim and Victoria Wood were geniuses at both composition and lyrics. I am not a composer but I have friends who are so I conceived the idea for a song about London, and a song about beer. Emily Leather and Cath Houghton respectively composed them and instructed me on how the verses and choruses would be, and the rhyming structure of the lyrics. The London Town song was complicated with internal rhymes too but writing the words was such a useful workout for my writing ability!
London Town was written as an anthem to London and is a jolly and uplifting song to sing in company with others. Buy the lyrics, musical score, and karaoke backing track by clicking here.
I also commissioned a video to accompany London Town with illustrations by Phillipe Fenner and animated by Andrew Smith. Here’s the You Tube link.
The singers are my friends Elinor Moran and Richard Knight who are professional opera singers but the song can be sung by anyone whether they sing in tune or not!
Cheers To Beer is a joyful, upbeat, celebratory song written as an anthem for beer to sing in the pub, at festivals, events, and other communal singing activities.
Buy the lyrics, musical score, and karaoke backing track by clicking here.
Listen to the song via You Tube