♪♪♪ 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:

When playing cards, not ev'ry hand's a winner
Not ev'ry hand is full of kings and queens
When playing cards don't call out "saint" or "sinner"
Because no hand is ever what it seems

When playing cards, some hands will go astray
But that's okay - they're dealt that way
When playing cards there's lots of suffering
And that is why this song we sing

 


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