The children of far distant lands

Author: M. E. Grey

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First Line: The children of far distant lands
Author: M. E. Grey

Tune

FOREST GREEN

FOREST GREEN is an English folk tune associated with the ballad "The Ploughboy's Dream." Ralph Vaughan Williams (PHH 316) turned FOREST GREEN into a hymn tune for The English Hymnal (1906), using it as a setting for "O Little Town of Bethlehem." Shaped in rounded bar form (AABA), FOREST GREEN has th…

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The Beacon Song and Service book #302

We Sing of Life #d79

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