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:

Let's ride in our time machines
Into futures of our dreams
And if we could only look for good
In places never seen

Let's look outside as we ride, ride, ride
Through fields and fields of flowers
And sing our song as we speed along
At sixty minutes per hour

For those who do not have the means
To go riding in time machines
Let's bring them along and teach them our song
And share with them our dreams

Let's look outside as we ride, ride, ride
Through fields and fields of flowers
And sing our song as we speed along
At sixty minutes per hour

 

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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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