Track Listing
1. Holding Fast
2. Sometimes When ...
3. Flow On Through Me, Lord
4. Some Day
5. Lost and Found      LYRICS
6. Consider! Consider!
7. Don't Do It! Don't Give In!
8. Carnival Calypso
9. Now Is The Time
10. The Hilly Billy Harvest Song
11. St. Patrick's Song      LYRICS
12. Shalom To Everyone     LYRICS
13. The Crib Carol      LYRICS
14. New Life
15. Our Loving Father (The Lord's Prayer)

A bonus CD is included which contains the scores and lyrics in pdf format.

These songs were written in response to the requirement of the 1988 Education Reform
Act that Collective Worship in County Schools should be ‘of a broadly Christian
character’ and the requirement of the 1992 Education (Schools) Act that schools
should contribute to ‘pupils’ spiritual and moral development’.

All the songs reflect values which accord with those of the Christian Gospel, such as
honesty, tolerance, care for others, integrity, compassion, loyalty, justice, ethical
endeavour, a love of nature and a concern for conservation, courage, perseverance,
equality of opportunity, human and animal rights, and a recognition of human weakness.

 While some of the songs have an explicitly theistic focus and some tell stories from
the Bible, none is Christocentric, i.e. addressed to Jesus Christ or presupposing an
exclusively Christian theological framework.

 The words of the songs have a direct appeal to the real world of children’s experience,
often making use of phrases and expressions they can own.  They were written with
children aged between 6 and 13 years in mind.

 All the songs have been trialled in schools and most have reported that children
have learnt them quickly and easily from listening to the recorded accompaniments. 
Some teachers, however, have preferred to introduce the songs by using a piano or
keyboard and for this reason simple melody line scores with chords of all the songs
are provided on a second CD.

One of the features of the songs is the powerful, instrumental and orchestrated
accompaniment and arrangement of each song.  Sometimes as many as eight tracks
of music are used simultaneously and each verse of a song normally has
something distinctive about the accompaniment.  This has the effect of stimulating
and supporting good singing and of sustaining children’s interest and enthusiasm.

Volume 1 differs from Volume 2 in so far as the songs of Volume 1 begin with a
full ‘playover’ of the tune. In Volume 2 each song has a four or eight bar introduction
and goes straight into verse one.  Each song has a short concluding coda.