♪♪♪ 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:
Things are the way they are, and not the way they're not
Things go the way they go, and stop the way they stop
Until we make the change, it should not be forgot:
Things are the way they are, and not the way they're not
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