♪♪♪ 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:

Suffering 'round the world, carnage and so much fear
Coming from something ugly, something that we make here

It's not our movies or veggies, or cars we proudly display
Or anything we are making in a "Love Thy Neighbor" way
We hide it cuz it's shameful, but we make them ev'ryday

The world can have our movies, our veggies and our cars
But let's stop making weapons, 'cuz that's not who we are

Conflicts can be resolved, and in a healing way
Simply ask any teacher, they do it ev'ryday

Or ask the auto mechanic, the veggie farmer and son
And others that we look up to, who refuse to own a gun
A diff'rent way of thinking, but the thinking must get done

The world can have our movies, our veggies and our cars
But let's stop making weapons, 'cuz that's not who we are

 


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