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What do the Rats Sing?

(A list of songs compiled from impromptu group singing sessions at several rationalist-adjacent events. Anything where the program was decided in advance is excluded from this list. This is all done from memory of events I happened to be at, and I’m more likely to remember songs I’m familiar with.)

Group singing standards

• Country Roads (x3)

• Hallelujah (x2)

• Wellerman (x2)

• Wagon Wheel

• Battle Hymn of the Republic

• Leave Her, Johnny

Songs which were written for Secular Solstice

• Bitter Wind Blown

• When I Die

• A Little Echo

• For the Longest Term

• Our Favorite Things (lyrics, sheet music)

(and see the ‘Filk and filk-adjacent’ and ‘Uncategorized’ sections, which include some that weren’t written for Solstice but are oft sung at it)

Filk and filk-adjacent

• Hymn to the Breaking Strain

• Time Wrote the Rocks (x2)

• Lucifer

• Landsailor

• Somebody Will

• HaMephorash (lyrics, chords)

• What’s it Like to Be a Bat (lyrics nowhere I can find on the internet, chords based on I Am My Own Grandpa)

• Bold Orion

Bob Dylan

• Blowin’ in the Wind

• Make You Feel My Love

• Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door

• We went through the whole album Blood on the Tracks that one time:

  • Tangled Up in Blue

  • Simple Twist of Fate

  • You’re a Big Girl Now

  • Idiot Wind

  • You’re Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go (x2)

  • Meet Me in the Morning

  • Lily, Rosemary, and the Jack of Hearts

  • If You See Her, Say Hello

  • Shelter from the Storm

  • Buckets of Rain

The Beatles

• Hey Jude (x2)

• Here Comes the Sun (x2)

• Revolution

• With a Little Help From My Friends

• Let It Be

• A Hard Day’s Night

• All You Need is Love

• Imagine (Yes, this is John Lennon solo, but I’m putting it in the Beatles section since he was a Beatle, if not at the time he wrote it.)

Some Manifest Attendees Prefer Modern Pop Music

• Shape of You (x2)

• Complicated

• Take Me to Church

• Just the Way You Are

• Take On Me

• Believer

Uncategorized

• The Mary Ellen Carter (x3)

• We Will All Go Together When We Go (x2)

• American Pie (x2)

• The Mary Ellen Spider

• (If You Ain’t Got That) Do Re Mi

• Barrett’s Privateers

• Unison in Harmony

• The Water is Wide

• I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)

• Sons and Daughters

• Riptide

• Viva la Vida

• My Way

• At the Bottom of Everything

• Aeroplane Over the Sea

• One

• Fly Me To The Moon

• Can You Feel the Love Tonight

• Have You Ever Seen the Rain?

• Proud Mary

• Sweet Caroline

• Hotel California

• Wonderwall

• Call Me Maybe

[Orioth]

Made some updates to this:

• added songs I remembered folks singing during Less Online and Manifest this year

• tinkered with the categorization

• added links to chords (whatever was the first search result, mostly; I don’t know if there are better or worse chord websites out there) and links to lyrics when lyrics weren’t given on the webpage with the chords