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Notes for teachers

Can you write a song for me? Can it be about the way I learn as I travel?

This project can be done by an individual or a group.

Nothing but your voice or the London Philharmonic orchestra, the choice is yours (or maybe theirs). You will also need a device to record your song, save it and send it to me.

A set of instructions, in PDF format, for teachers to hand out is here.

Here is the backing track



Here, in PDF form, are the written lyrics.

Once you've written your song and recorded it, you should email us a version, in any recognised format, including as a video. Versions that are sent to us will be judged and the best fifty will be uploaded to our site. Send the recorded package to song@owlbut.co.uk. Make sure you add your age and all names if you have been working with others.

All entries need to be in by April 30th 2025. The top fifty songs, and maybe a few others, will be on the site in June 2025. If you send yours in early we might put a few teasers on our site. Watch this space.

Feel free to upload the finished song to the special part of your school website called Owlbut's World of Learning. However, only examples sent to the above email address will be judged and, if successful, put on our site.

NOTE: You will retain full copyright of your song. However, by sending it to us, you give us permission to upload it to this site.

Once we'd written our song, we thought we would get a local school to record a version of it. Then the schools all closed because of COVID. This is why the news got bad. Richard decided he would record his version so, with no thought for the ears of others, he did, in our living room. It's here.



THANKS

Our thanks to Tony Meloy and Rhion Davies, who together are better known as Dad's Old Pants, and produced the backing track. They are now neatly folded in a drawer waiting to come back out and perform again but not before you hear Tony and Rhion's version



If you get the timing right, you can even have Richard and Tony singing a duet. Simon and Garfunkel eat your heart out Musical joke coming up: Troubling and maybe A Bridge Too Far.

And finally.....................Richard hasn't yet decided whether to make a music video of the song. I told him we were too busy but he just said "um". I'm scared.