The phrase "hymn about" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to describe a specific type of hymn or to indicate the topic or subject of a hymn. Example: The congregation sang a beautiful hymn about love and kindness during the church service.
The caregivers sang a particularly mournful hymn about redemption that made both Vertulfo and me cry.
Afterward, they sing a sort of hymn about his death and Christ's resurrection.
It should have stopped right after the ecstatic hymn about Ritalin.
Mourners formed a circle around the cross and sang "Black Madonna," a hymn about the religious icon and national symbol.
All dressed in white, they chanted traditional Sufi songs and a mournful hymn about their martyred leader.
"Please, Please … is our hymn about longing and unrequited love... No way on Earth should it be used to sell household goods or clothes.
In the West, St. Hilary of Poitiers composed a book of hymn texts about 360.
Hymns about "traveling on" to a "heavenly home" are threaded through the cycle: sometimes accompanied by harplike strumming inside the piano, sometimes reharmonized with more unstable, modernist chords.
The rustle of pages was our family's most sacred sound, our hymns, about wolves, and pioneer children, the little Japanese peach boy, the talking animals of Aesop, and then, oh, my God, Dr. Seuss.
The Christian activists who helped sweep Ronald Reagan to power were mocked for trusting the biblical account of creation and disdaining evolutionary science; they sang hymns about the Rock of Ages, but were indifferent to the age of rocks.
As children we may have sung hymns about 'Greenland's icy mountains' in our school assemblies but today's inhabitants are growing potatoes and other temperate crops in sheltered areas.
