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==Texts sung to this tune==
 
==Texts sung to this tune==
[[O Little Town of Bethlehem]]
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*[[All Beautiful the March of Days]]
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*[[I Sing the Mighty Pow'r of God]]
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*[[O Little Town of Bethlehem]]
  
 
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Revision as of 18:12, 22 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.

Texts sung to this tune