We Can Fly:
A song for everyone!
Welcome to the We Can Fly homepage, where you will find free song resources and links to tutorial videos so you can learn the song yourself, whether at home, in school, or in a choir.
Song and lyric sheets are available to download at the bottom of this page. There are also a series of YouTube tutorial videos (CLICK HERE), which will teach you how to sing the song, learn to play some simple and fun percussion rhythms to play on junk / household items, and then to put it all together, ready to perform!
On this page you will also find videos of previous performances, plus a copy of the song, and pre-recorded backing track (see download links below) for you to sing along with.
PerformANCE at Caird Hall with CCC, May 2014
About the song
We Can Fly was written in 2014 for a Children's Classic Concerts (CCC) project involving a group of children from Drumchapel in Glasgow. It is a song with an aspirational theme, which can also feature a percussion element. It was originally performed twice, in the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall and the Caird Hall, Dundee (see video below) for concerts entitled ‘Going for Gold’ - musical celebrations of the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow 2014. These performances featured the young musicians from Drumchapel alongside students from the Junior Department of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland as well as the National Youth Choir of Scotland and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra.
In October 2018, a new version of We Can Fly was performed twice, in Glasgow and in Edinburgh. This was the culmination of a collaborative project between CCC and Drake Music Scotland. It was a multi-media event combining a live symphony orchestra, a 200 piece choir, pre-recorded digital and acoustic performances on a big screen, and live performances on an array of digital instruments from some of our project participants. See below for a film of the combined Edinburgh and Glasgow events…
This piece of music can be sung by choirs, used in schools, community projects, and now in the time of this global pandemic, we will see how it works online and at home!
As the message of the song is a universal one, I have a vision of it being sung by children all around the world.
'All around the world
People far and near
Open up your hearts
And hear us loud and clear
No matter who you are or where you're from, it's clear
That this is a message for you all to hear
You can do anything, you just have to try
You know you can reach all the way up to the sky
'Cause there's no reason why we can't learn to fly tonight
And when it feels too hard keep aiming high
You don't have to fight it no you just have to try
And there's no reason why we can't learn to fly tonight
We Can Fly.....'
Latest News
May 2020
I am currently in touch with various musical colleagues, teachers and friends around the UK, but also further afield, to see if we can create some fun online, virtual performances of We Can Fly. Let’s get creative and see where we can take this! Feel free to take the song and make it your own :-)
The sheet music, backing track and in fact absolutely all the resources for We Can Fly are available for free! Links are at the bottom of this page, plus check out my YouTube playlist for some tutorial videos too!
As well as what you can find below, there are additional free resources available, such as a band arrangement with full score and parts; and also the full symphony orchestra score and parts. I am also very happy to send high-res WAV files of the song and backing track if people are using them to perform with. I can only offer MP3s here as downloads.
Contact me directly if you are interested in any of these additional materials.
COLLABORATION between ccc, DRAKE MUSIC SCOTLAND AND NYCOS, OCT 2018
Download Links
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