Chords for The Vocal Majority - Hymn to Freedom

There's a tradition in the barbershop chorus community, and that's where the outgoing champions,
we give a token of some kind, usually a physical token to every man that's going to compete
on stage, and we go find their chorus rehearsals during the week and we take something in and
give them a pin, you know, a state of Texas pin or something, just to show them, you know,
best of luck from vocal majority.
And this year we decided to do something a little different, and it's fun because we
get to share it with you.
We decided in this world where we come in here and we find our solace and our peace
and our joy and our unity, we decided that we wanted to give a gift of song.
_ So we started looking for something that would be special.
Our friend Steve Armstrong had a suggestion for the song, I'd never heard it, and it's
called Hymn to Freedom.
It was written by Oscar Peterson, the jazz pianist, back in the 60s in the height of
the civil rights movement.
And they asked him to play something that in his mind would represent this great movement
and this hope for freedom.
And so it was an instrumental, and he brought these ideas of love and unity and joy together
in an instrumental piece.
And later words were added to try to reflect his beautiful message.
So we asked my dad, Jim Clancy, to arrange something.
We licensed 1,400 copies.
We gave one to every competitor.
And so what we'd like to do for you now is to show you that, yeah, we compete against
each other and we're ranked against each other, but that doesn't matter.
What's important is our brotherhood and sisterhood and the joys that we get to share this art
form and this beautiful thing that we do together.
So we'd like to ask all the people that competed today to stand and join us from your seats.
And the rest of you, we hope you enjoy it.
It's called Hymn to Freedom.
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