♪♪♪ 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:

"Bad" is not a name for a woman
"Bad" is not a name for a man
"Bad" is not a name for a people
"Bad" is not a name for a land

"Bad is just a name for that which causes pain
Not for any victim it claims

"Bad" is not a name for a husband
"Bad" is not a name for a wife
"Bad" is not a name for a person
Caught in the machin'ry of life

"Bad is just a name for that which causes pain
Not for any victim it claims

"Bad" is not a name for the hungry
"Bad" is not a name for the poor
"Bad" is not a name for the lonely
Who don't want to live anymore

"Bad is just a name for that which causes pain
Not for any victim it claims


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