Join with friends or family to sing this round to celebrate life’s mystery together.

Here are the three parts:

First part: Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?

Second part: Where do we come from?

Third part: Mystery, mystery, life is a riddle and a mystery!

Listen to the video below to learn the melodies with the Orange County Unitarian Universalist Choir.

To hear hundreds of UUs singing this song at General Assembly 2008, watch the first few minutes of this video from morning worship with Rev. Fred Muir.

The lyrics to this song come from the title of one of artist Paul Gaugin’s paintings (you can see the words from the first part of the round, written in French, in the upper left-hand corner):

Paul Gauguin – D’ou venons-nous (1896) Museum of Fine Arts Boston

Song credit: “Where Do We Come From?” by Brian Tate, as included in the Unitarian Universalist Association’s Singing the Journey: A Supplement to Singing the Living Tradition. Copyright 1999 by Brian Tate.