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Text:While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks
Author:Nahum Tate
Tune:CHRISTMAS
Composer:Georg Frederick Handel

138. While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks

Text Information
First Line: While shepherds watched their flocks by night
Title: While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks
Author: Nahum Tate (1700, alt.)
Meter: CM
Language: English
Publication Date: 1998
Tune Information
Name: CHRISTMAS
Composer: Georg Frederick Handel (1728)
Meter: CM
Key: C Major


Text Information:

Tate was one of the editors of the revision of the English Anglican psalter published in 1695. This hymn comes from a supplement designed to encourage churches to go beyond literalistic metrical versions of the Psalms


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