Before opening their songbooks and singing the notes, the United Shape Note Singers go through a selection of warm-up songs in a call-and-response pattern. Here, they perform a version of the popular “Come and Go with Me to That Land.”
Each song at a USNS singing begins with a singing of the notes, followed by the words of a song. Often, the chorus of a song is repeated at the end of a song as well as between songs.
