Day 4 - O Little Town of Bethlehem [England] (tune: Forest Green/Vaughan Williams)
O Little Town of Bethlehem is a popular Christmas carol based on a text written by Phillips Brooks in 1868. The carol is well known in both Great Britain and the United States, however it is sung to different tunes on each side of the Atlantic. For North American's the carol is sung to the tune St. Louis by Brooks' collaborator, Lewis Redner. In the United Kingdom and Ireland the text is sung to Forest Green, a tune collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams and first published in the 1906 English Hymnal. Forest Green is Vaughan Williams' adaption of the English folk ballad The Ploughboy's Dream, which he collected in Forest Green, Surrey in 1903.
We're presenting a number of Forest Green/Vaughan Williams versions for your Holiday pleasure.
O Little Town of Bethlehem - Christ Church Cathedral Victoria
O Little Town of Bethlehem - MC Gender
O Little Town of Bethlehem
This entire series has been very delightful!
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