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[[O Little Town of Bethlehem]] | *[[All Beautiful the March of Days]] | ||
*[[I Sing the Mighty Pow'r of God]] | |||
*[[O Little Town of Bethlehem]] | |||
[[category:Tunes]] | [[category:Tunes]] | ||
[[category:Hymn Tunes arranged from Folk Tunes]] | [[category:Hymn Tunes arranged from Folk Tunes]] | ||
[[category:8 6 8 6 D]] | [[category:8 6 8 6 D]] | ||
Revision as of 00:12, 23 October 2007
Forest Green is a hymn tune which has been for nearly a century the usual tune for O Little Town of Bethlehem in Great Britain. In origin it is a folk tune usually called The Ploughboy's Dream; it was arranged for hymnic use by Ralph Vaughan Williams in The English Hymnal. It is generally construed metrically as 8 6 8 6 D.
