Hymns and Devotions for Daily Worship ‎#9

9. Song of Zechariah

Text Information

• First Line: Blest be the God of Israel
• Title: Song of Zechariah
• Author: Carl P. Daw Jr.
• Meter: 8.6.8.6 D
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 2024
• Scripture:
  Luke 1:68-79
• Topic: Advent
• Copyright: ©1990 Hope Publishing Company.
• CCLI Number: 287884
• Notes: Lk. 1:68–79, versified by Episcopal priest Carl P. Daw Jr. for the Hymn Society in 1985, published in Daw’s A Year of Grace (1990).

Tune Information

• Name: FOREST GREEN
• Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams
• Meter: 8.6.8.6 D
• Incipit: 51112 32345
• Key: F Major or modal
• Source: The English Hymnal, 1906
• Notes: Forest Green, an English folk tune known as “The Ploughboy’s Dream,” was collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams in Forest Green, Surrey, England, in December 1903, and arr. for <cite>The English Hymnal</cite> (1906).