All Things Bright and Beautiful

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• sheet music, audio and lyrics from LDS.org (p. 231 in Children's Songbook, 1989)

Sheet Music

Version from Hymns for Christian Worship, 1909 (no. 540)

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• Tune: All Things Bright, by Caryl Bullard Rich
• Copyright: Public Domain
• Contributer: Veramet 20:44, 28 September 2007 (MDT)

Tunes

(a few of these may be redundant; feel free to fix this)

• Royal Oak, 17th Cen­tu­ry Eng­lish mel­o­dy; ar­ranged by Martin F. Shaw, 1915 (This is the tune in Children's Songbook, 1989)
• Keats (Also known as Bright and Beautiful): Tune by William H. Monk (1823–1889), 1887; as seen in Hymns of the Kingdom of God (p. 474) also Free MP3 Recording for use in services
• All Things Bright, by Caryl Bullard Rich (b. 1865), 1909
• Tune in Motives and Expression in Religious Education: A Manual of Worship, Hand ..., 1922 (no. 17; p. 258)
• Tune by Sir FA Gore Ouskley in The Home and School Hymnal, 1894 (p. 53)
• Tune by John Hullah in The Home and School Hymnal, 1894 (p. 54)
• Tune in A Hymnal as Authorized and Approved for Use by the General Convention of the ..., 1916 (p. 447)
• Tune in Children's Hymnal: Set to Appropriate Tunes (no. 61; p. 61)
• Tune from Childhood Songs: A Book of Words and Music for Primary Classes and the Home, 1898 (no. 100; p. 99)
• Ger­ald, by Lud­wig Spohr, 1834
• Greystone, by W. R. Wag­horne, in The Eng­lish Hymn­al (Lon­don: Ox­ford Un­i­ver­si­ty Press, 1906), num­ber 587

Lyrics

• Poet: Mrs. Cecil F. Alexander (b. 1823), 1848
  • Three sources say John Keble wrote this piece and some say that Cecil Fraces Alexander (1818–1895) wrote it.
• Copyright: Public Domain

Lyrics from Church Praise: Comprising Part I. Complete Metrical Psalms; Part II. Hymns (no. 433; p. 357)

1. All things bright and beautiful,
All creatures, great and small,
All things wise and wonderful,
The Lord God made them all.

2. Each little flower that opens,
Each little bird that sings,
He made their glowing colours,
He made their tiny wings.

3. The rich man in his castle,
The poor man at his gate,
God made them, high or lowly,
And ordered their estate.

4. The purple-headed mountain,
The river running by,
The sunset, and the morning
That brightens up the sky;

5. The cold wind in the winter,
The pleasant summer sun,
The ripe fruits in the garden,—
He made them everyone.

6. The tall trees in the greenwood,
The meadows where we play,
The rushes by the water
We gather every day;—

7. He gave us eyes to see them,
And lips that we might tell
How great is God Almighty
Who has made all things well.
Amen.

Lyrics from Hymns for Christian Worship, 1909 (no. 540)

Chorus.
All things bright and beatiful,
All creatures great and small,
All things wise and wonderful,
The Lord God made them all …

1. Each little flow'r that opens,
Each little bird that sings,
He made their glowing colors,
He made their tiny wings.

2. The rich man in his castle,
The poor man at his gate,
God made them high or lowly,
And ordered their estate.

3. The purple-headed mountain,
The river running by,
The sunset and the morning
That brightens up the sky;—

4. The cold wind in the winter,
The pleasant summer sun,
The ripe fruits in the garden,—
He made them ev'ry one;

5. He gave us eyes to see them,
And lips that we might tell
How great is God almighty,
Who has made all things well.

External Lyrics

• Lyrics from Children's Songbook, 1989