Rise Up Singing: Because All Men Are Brothers

Words by Tom Glazer
Melody by Hans Leo Hassler (1564-1612). J.S. Bach adopted it for his Matthäuspassion, as the "Passion Chorale" is called in German.
Rise Up Singing chapter: Unity, p.238

F Dm G C Am E Am - / /
F G F C F Dm A - / G Am D G F G C -

This is the first video in my project to learn and record all the songs in the "Rise Up Singing" songbook, so that others can learn the tunes and spread the songs. Priority will be given to hard-to-find songs over still popular songs, although exceptions will be made for songs I just happen to like best. I'm not sure if there's trouble with copyright law ahead. Let's hope not.

Update:
I just found out that Annie Patterson, who co-edited Rise Up Singing, recorded and sells CDs of these songs here at www.quakersong.org/teaching_discs/ . So go check it out. You can buy the set, or individual CDs at 12$ each. I'm going to keep trying to do it song by song though, so stay tuned.

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[1285pan]

What a great project! I have found many songs in Rise Up Singing that look very interesting based on the lyrics, but I don't know the melody. Thank you for making these tunes available for free, and also for informing us about the CDs. I will partake of a little of both.

[matthewvaughan]

@1285pan It's a pleasure! Thanks a lot for watching :)

[nhgranite1]

@matthewvaughan

Not too familiar with this process, but I have a friend in Chiang Mai, Thailand, coincidentally. I was taping my old Peter Paul and Mary albums and this is on their first or second album. I was trying to get the words off the internet and that led me to you. The PPM version is majestic, acappella, I think, going from memory. I will try to sent your video to my son in Bolivia on a missions trip who plays guitar, self taught. I love this song.

[matthewvaughan]

@nhgranite1 Cool, thanks a lot :) What's your friend doing in Chiang Mai?

[uwemommens]

I want to be a little critical this time. No, not with you or your project. But with the RUS-songbook. The composer of this melody was Hans Leo Hassler (1564 to 1612). Bach adopted it for his Matthäuspassion, as the "Passion Chorale" is called in German. Matthäus is German for Matthew. Funny coincidence!- Is this your first video in the RUS project?

[matthewvaughan]

@uwemommens Thanks Uwe! I've changed the information in the bar above, as you can see. And yeah, this was the very first video I did for the project. It seems like a long time ago, but it wasn't, really.

[nhgranite1]

@nhgranite1 Hello again-my friend and I are weightlifting partners from our rugby days at keene state in NH, now in our early 60s and products of all that made up the 60s, he a Viet Nam peace protester, and me, an artillery sergeant two years in Nam, but found common ground in the pounding of rugby and good music.  He runs a gym, and has a family in Chiang Mai, retired from the gem business in Hong Kong and Africa. We still lift, listen to music, watch football games, converse on line. so long.

[MrDantheguitarman]

just found this video while riding the internet superhighway,

i really like it and the way you sing it ,keep it up

[nancylgeorge]

Thanks, Matthew, and it does sound like that was the problem. Thank you for your response. I'll check out your newer videos and see what happens. By the way, I knew about the CDs for $12, however I am on a fixed income and can't really spend the $ right now. So I for one really appreciate what you are doing, and I hope you will keep it up.

[matthewvaughan]

Hi Nancy. I'm playing the same chords that appear in the sidebar. they probably sound a little off when you play along just because our guitars aren't in tune with each other. I don't always bother tuning my guitar to the right pitch; instead just tuning it to itself. That means that over time it'll end up a half-step higher or lower until I go get out my pitch pipe and give it a proper tune-up.

I've been tuning up more regularly recently, so it shouldn't be a problem in the newer videos.