Singalong
songbooks
now for sale

Easy sheet music
for 300+ favorites

$39.95*

Including free templates
for audience lyrics sheets

Finally, a singalong songbook of sheet music with easy-to-follow melody lines, chords and lyrics for more than 300 oldtime favorites. songbookIdeal for singalongs at nursing homes, senior residences or just at your own home. Bound in a loose-leaf binder of durable vinyl, unsnaps for access to pages. (To see a photo of the book, click here.)

Each songbook comes with templates for copying lyrics of more than 240 songs to hand out to audience members, a great way to get audiences involved.

To order Sing along with ease, email sidleavitt@yahoo.com directly or enter your email address as a comment in our latest blog entry and we will email you. (Your email address won't appear in the comments section.)

To review our sales procedures and philosophy, click on our entry entitled We trust you.

*plus $5.40 shipping in U.S.

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from frustrated writers
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This site offers a library of original text works – nonfiction, fiction or poetry of all lengths, published and unpublished – that have been submitted free by their authors. To find these, please visit the 'Works' section in the upper righthand column of this page. This site does not claim copyright to any of these works, and no modification of any work has been done except for style formatting. No work may be reused commercially, and any noncommercial reuse must give credit to the author.

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This blog was started as a nonprofit website giving writers a place to publish their work at no cost and readers a chance to read that work and, if they chose, to comment on it. Now we are concentrating on a singalong songbook, also an idealistic project that promotes volunteer music programs at nursing homes and senior residences as well as family singing at home, all through easy, low-cost sheet music. Although we no longer accept new works from authors, all previous submissions are still available in our 'Works' section. We also maintain a blogroll of diverse sites, all well-written, for readers to explore, although at present, no new sites are being accepted for listing. The site's founder and administrator is its first nonfiction contributor, Sid Leavitt, a retired newspaper editor who lives in Lake Katrine, N.Y.

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Poetry

‘A Philosophy’ by Virginia Sunderman: Putting ‘want’ and ‘have’ in the proper perspective. (118 words, posted April 18, 2007)

Poetry of Nancy Allan, three works — ‘Don’t Ask Me,’ a bridesmaid’s view of a wedding; ‘Kite Tale,’ watching your cares fly away, and ‘That’s Cats,’ a tale of two felines. (94, 73 and 76 words, respectively, most recent post Aug. 3, 2008)

Poetry of Georgia Eggers, two works — ‘A loved one lost,’ finding comfort in memories, and ‘Spring Rain,’ sights and sounds of renewal. (106 and 58 words, respectively, posted Jan. 7, 2008, and Nov. 11, 2007)

Poetry of Laura Elliott, three works — ‘And Don’t Ya Know. . .?,’ offering a lifeline in the darkness, and two lyrical pieces, ‘Beneath the Apple Tree’ and ‘This Is Your Rock Opera.’ (154, 38 and 242 words, respectively, posted Oct. 26, Sept. 7 and June 12, 2008)

Poetry of P.L. Frederick, three works drawn from nature — ‘Humming Field,’ ‘Parade’ and ‘Downward Dog’ — and a fourth, ‘Reel,’ about belonging, being and yearning. (52, 77, 59 and 22 words, respectively, posted Aug. 31, 2008)

Poetry of Jason Gregoire, two experimental works by a young military officer in southern California — ‘Trick mirrors,’ and ‘Crumbs scattered . . .’ (285 and 61 words, posted Nov. 8, 2007)

Poetry of Joel Phipps, seven works — ‘The Convenience Store,’ ‘Public Service Announcement,’ ‘Writersville, U.S.A.,’ ‘December Rains,’ ‘Amore Consumata,’ ‘You Cast A Spell Over Me’ and ‘Appreciation.’ (ranging from 450 to 96 words, most recent post Nov. 2, 2008)

Poetry of Ian Spitzig, two works by a “small-town boy with big-town dreams” — ‘Oh Mathilda’ and ‘One way to steal beauty from the city.’ (67 and 75 words, respectively, posted May 25, 2008, and Dec. 2, 2007)

Poetry of Jennifer Weber, three works — ‘Everything But Mine,’ ‘That Day’ and ‘This.’ (127, 111 and 44 words, respectively, posted May 15, 2008)