Learning the 141 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:

Them over there who don't have names
Them over there who seem the same
Seem the same. Don't have names

Them over there, the old and frail
Them over there, the young in jail
Them with cancer and no hair
Schizophrenics in despair. Them there

We over here can make a change
We can go there and learn their names
Make a change. Learn their names

Names for the old and for the frail
Names for the lost and those in jail
If we care - we must dare - learn their names 'til
There's no "them" and there's no "there"

 

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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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