Hymns for Today's Church (2nd ed.) ‎#209a

209a. Fairest Lord Jesus

Text Information

• First Line: Fairest Lord Jesus
• Translator: Lilian Stevenson (1870-1960)
• Meter: 5 5 8 D
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 1987
• Topic: God, Saviour: Praised and Worshipped; The Ascension of Christ
• Source: the German (seventeenth century)
• Copyright: © Oxford University Press; this version © Jubilate Hymns

Tune Information

• Name: SCHÖNSTER HERR JESU
• Meter: 5 5 8 D
• Incipit: 11127
• Key: E♭ Major
• Source: Silesian Folk Songs Leipzig 1842
• Notes: Alternative tune: SILCHESTER (209b)