♪♪♪ 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:
Open, open up the window
Let the curtains snap in the wind
Open, open up the window
Let the fresh new world come in
May we all grow as the winds blow
Blow and blow and blow again
Open, open up the window
Let the fresh new world come in
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