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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.

General Information

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+'''''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, 1906|The English Hymnal]]''. It is generally construed metrically as [[8 6 8 6 D]].
+=General Information=
+*English melody, arr. [[Ralph Vaughan Williams]] (1872–1958), 1906
+==Texts sung to this tune==
+*[[All Beautiful the March of Days]]
+*[[I Sing the Mighty Pow'r of God]]
+*[[I Saw a Mighty Angel Fly]], by anon., ca. 1840
+**Arrangement copyright for the version of ''Forest Green'' used in the [[current LDS hymnal]]): © Oxford University Press
+*[[O Little Town of Bethlehem]], by [[Phillips Brooks]] (1835–1893)
 [[category:Tunes]]
+[[category:Hymn Tunes arranged from Folk Tunes]]
 [[category:8 6 8 6 D]]
+[[category:Public Domain Arrangements]]
+[[category:Restricted Arrangements]]