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 start a big commotion so ev'rybody knows
About a great injustice that they can help oppose

Let's shake the foundations, let's shout and bang the drums
Because silence is violence if it gets nothing done

To end a great injustice it must be exposed
So let's start a big commotion so ev'rybody knows

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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.

This secular hymn was chosen for the St. Louis Peace Choir's 2016 Songbook.

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

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The St. Louis Peace Choir is a secular choir of St. Louis pacifists and peace activists. Come sing with us! We meet every Sunday evening at 7:00 for a candlelight Peace Vigil. The Peace Vigils take place on the steps of College Church (St. Louis University) at the corner of Grand and Lindell. These pleasant little weekly happenings are short (only a half hour) and largely silent, but we begin and end them with a song. Weather never stops us. Snowing? Wear boots. Raining? Bring an umbrella. Candles (battery) and laminated music sheets will be provided.

(Page last updated: January 16, 2016)