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:

Together for so long, but seldom do we fight
The others want to know what we are doing right

We talk and listen, talk and listen, talk and listen
Day and night, and that is how we keep things right
We talk and listen, talk and listen, talk and listen
Day and night, and that is how we keep things right

With family and friends, or strangers met today
At home or work or school, things always go okay

We talk and listen, talk and listen, talk and listen
Day and night, and that is how we keep things right
We talk and listen, talk and listen, talk and listen
Day and night, and that is how we keep things right

 

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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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