Alternate hymn words and tunes
For hymns in the current Unitarian Universalist hymnal, Singing the Living Tradition; hymn numbers reference this hymnal.
Alternate tune for the words to "The Leaf Unfurling" (#7)
Don Cohen intended the words for this hymn to go with the music printed with hymn #103 ("For All the Saints"). The holders of the music copyright would not permit Don's words to be printed with the Ralph Vaughan Williams' tune. But you should get your congregation to sing it that way.
Alternate words for the tune "Coolinge" (#64, #77)
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Sheet music (as a PDF file)
"May Morning"
The school boy loitered on his way to school,
Scorning to live so rare a day by rule.
So mild the air, a pleasure 'twas to breathe,
For what seems heav'n above was earth beneath.
Sour'd neighbors chatted by the garden pale,
Nor quarrell'd who should drive the needed nail--
The most unsocial made new friends that day,
As when the sun shines husbandmen make hay.
How long I slept I know not, but at last
I felt my consciousness returning fast,
For Zephyr rustled past with leafy tread,
And heedlessly with one heel grazed my head.
My eyelids opened on a field of blue,
For close above a nodding violet grew,
A part of heav'n it seemed, which I could scent,
Its blue commingling with the firmament.
(slightly adapted from a poem by Henry David Thoreau)