Learning the 144 Secular Hymns

♪♪♪ SING ALONG ♪♪♪ as a piano plays the chords and melody (from the SOLO Edition of the Secular Hymnal). Singing along to a simple, chorded melody like this is an ideal way to develop your harmonizing skills!

Lyrics:

All praise to the troubled, the lost and confused
To all schizophrenics and those with the blues
All praise to the doubters and those who think free
Who open us up to a world that could be

Spin around, spin around, 'til we're no longer bound
Spin around, spin around, 'til we're way off the ground
All praise to the troubled who help us to see
And open us up to a world that could be

All praise to the outcasts, alone and adrift
Bipolars, autistics with their special gifts
All praise to the artists in whose fantasies
We learn that there's more to the world than we see

Spin around, spin around, 'til we're no longer bound
Spin around, spin around, 'til we're way off the ground
All praise to the troubled who help us to see
And open us up to a world that could be

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Here's the same hymn in 4-part harmony (from the SATB Edition of the Secular Hymnal). If you and your choir prefer to print out your own score of this hymn, click here to access a beautiful PDF file.

To research the history of this hymn tune: http://www.hymnary.org/hymnal/SH2014

Out of respect for our diverse society, please work to keep our public school and community choirs "secular" (comfortable and welcoming to both religious and nonreligious singers). For more information, please visit the secular choirs webpage.

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