IMPORTANT---PLEASE READ

 When you click the music link (below), Windows Media Player will appear on the side of this screen. It is suggested that you minimize the Media Player Screen (by clicking onto the X in the top corner) so that you will have your full screen available for viewing the hymnals. Scroll down the page as the songs are played, to read from the hymnals.

Click here to start music in streaming audio

Hymn #1 Star in the East, sung by shaped-note singers

Hymn #2 Choctaw Hymn #53, sung by Choctaw Choir

            UBA ISHT TALOA  53.
            “Give me Christ, or else I die.”

         1 Chitokaka ma! chi haksobish a
          Et welit, chin tahpahanla li ka
          Auet is sa haklo cha, nana ka
          Chim asihilhha Ii ka et vmá
          Klaist a auet is svm ihissashke;
          Keyukmvno, svlla he banoshke.

         2 Tvli holisso, micha nanasi
          Yakni ‘lvppa asha, yohmi kvno
          Is svmakbano, chi ahni la wa;
          Klaist ak bano, ho sa bahannvshke
             Klaist a auet is svm ihissashke;
          Keyukmvno, svlla he banoshke.

         3 Uno vt chukvsh okpulo banot,
          Nan ayoshoba bieka hona,
          Aya li chatuk osh, svlbvshushke;
          Et is sa nukhaklo puyulla cha,
          Klaist a auet is svm ihissashke;
          Keyukmvno, svlla he banoshke.

         4 Chisvs vttok pulla hatuk mak o,
         Chishno yokvt hatak yoshoba ya
          Pilla ish okchalinchi chatuk vt,
          Uno ma is si okchalinchashke;
          Klaist a auet is svm ihissashke;
          Keyukmvno, svlla he banoshke.

         5 "Kvna hosh svso ha i yimmikma,
          Nana ai ashvchi chatuk oka
          Kashoffit i hanchi la hi oke;”
          Ish achi kvt, is sa kashoffashke;
          Klaist a auet is svm ihissashke;
          Keyukmvno, svlla he banoshke.

         6 Auet is sa nukhaklo pulla cha,
          Luak a moshola he iksho ho
          Is la he vlhpesa tuk kia,
          Auet is sa hlakoffihinchashke;
          Chisvs ma! is si okchalinchashke;
          Keyukmvno, svlla he banoshke.
                           L. S. W.
 
 

       Hymn #3 Happy Land, sung by shaped-note singers

Hymn #4 Choctaw Hymn #11, sung by Choctaw Choir

         UBA ISHT TALOA 11. P. M.

         1 Hatak hvsh puta ma!
             Ho minti;
          Hatak hvsh puta ma!
          Yakni achukma kvt
          Uba talaivshke;
             Ho minti.

      2 Hatak hvsh moma ma
             Ho yimmi;
          Hatak hvsh moma ma!
          Chisvs im anumpa
          Hvsh yimmi pullashke;
             Ho yimmi.

        3 Okla e moma kvt,
             Kil ía:
          Chisvs pi hullo hosh
          Pi vlhtobvt illit,
          Falamvt tani tok;
          Kil ía.

        4 Chisvs im anumpa
          Ke yimmi
          Chisvs im anumpa
          Achukma fehna ka
          Chukvsh isht ahli hosh
             Ke yimmi.

        5 Uba ayukpa yvt
             Pimma chi;
          Chisvs ai ahanta
          Yvmma il onakmvt
          Uba ayukpa yvt
             Pimma chi.

        6 Uba il onakmvt,
             Pilla wa;
            Yakni achuknia ya
         Yvmma il onakmvt,
         Antvt e bilia;
            Pilla wa.
                                                                C. B.
 
 

Hymn #5 Complainer, sung by shaped-note singers
 

Hymn #6 Choctaw Hymn #60, sung by Choctaw Choir
 
 

             UBA ISHT TALOA   60.

               Desiring to be with Christ.
                 ‘‘Oh, when I shall see Jesus.’’

           1  Nitak nanta fehna' k o
            Yakni ’lvppa issvt
           Uba aholitopa
            Ona aa chi hoh cho?
            Nitak nanta fehna ‘k o,
            Chisvs fehna hona.
               Ont pisvt, iba takla
        Binili la chi cho?

         2  Chisvs aiasha mak o
          Ona li hokmvto,
          Si achukmaka kvt, peh
          Bilia hi oke.
          A Miko Chisvs vto
          Tikba hekvt ayvt
          Si anukfihinli hosh
          Yak vm ahanchishke.

         3 “1k chi nukwivo kashke;
          An tvshka chia hvt,
          Um anumpa ha kvllot
          lsh a hikkiashke.”
          Achi hoka, sa yimmit
          Anukchieto hosh
Chisvs a Miko yoka
         Iakaiya la Chi.

         4 Chisvs vba Miko ya
          Iakaiya li kvt
          A svlli hokmak heto
          Um vlhpiesashke.
          An Chisvs fehna hoka
          I sa hofahya wa:
          Si okchaya takla ‘k osh
          Issa la he keyushke.

              5 Chisvs holitopa ma!
          Si okchaya taklvt
          Chim ai ahli la chi ka
          Is si apelashke.
                                               A. W.

RETURN BACK TO UNION MENU