Forest Green
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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
- 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)