Hallelujah Chorus gets new humanistic words: We're Creators

Handel's stirring Hallelujah Chorus now has powerful words that reflect our values! They affirm that meaning and value come not from some hypothetical deity, but from us.

This would be good for HumanLight celebrations.

(Our own Ruth Anthony-Gardner and I collaborated on this.)

A vocal score with the new words is available as an attachment.
[Edit: Download the sheet music with this link -- it's easy to miss in the verbiage at the bottom of the posting.]

Feel free to copy, sing, distribute, share, record, sing... !
(with attribution, and any derivative works must be distributed under a similar license)

We’re Creators

words by Ruth Anthony-Gardner and G.C.
to the tune of the Hallelujah chorus from Messiah by G. F. Handel

We’re creators, we the people,
Making meaning, telling stories, yes we create.
(2x)

People created ev-ery idea.
We are thinkers, we’re creators, god-inventors, storytellers.
(2x)

People created ev-ery idea...
(storytellers, storytellers...)
Yes we create.

“Reality”’s our word
... in language
by people said and heard.
We say what’s real, we say what’s real.

Reality is our shared perception...
We’re thinkers, creators...

Right and wrong (we’re thinkers, creators, god-inventors, storytellers)
they come from us (we’re thinkers, creators, god-inventors, storytellers) ...
... they come from us,
(Right and wrong) they come from us!

Reality (reality) ... is our shared (is our shared) perception ...

Right and wrong (we’re thinkers, creators)
they come from us (god-inventors, storytellers)
Reality is our shared, is our shared perception.

Right and wrong, they come from us.
Right and wrong, they come from us.
Reality is our shared perception.
We’re thinkers, creators, we’re thinkers, creators,
Allah, Yahweh we created; god-inventors, storytellers.
Yes, we--- cre-ate!

Author’s Note

Reality arises as a construct within a language-using community.
We posit that it exists independently, because that suits our purposes.
Reality is actually “reality as we agree to interpret it,
based on the perceptions upon which we agree”.

"We're Creators" by Ruth Anthony-Gardner and G.C. is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.