Saint Joseph was a quiet man

Author: David Riley

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Text Information

First Line: Saint Joseph was a quiet man
Author: David Riley
Meter: 8.6.8.6 D
Language: English
Copyright: © 1961 by McLaughlin & Reilly in "Christian Life in Song"
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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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KINGSFOLD

Thought by some scholars to date back to the Middle Ages, KINGSFOLD is a folk tune set to a variety of texts in England and Ireland. The tune was published in English Country Songs [sic: English County Songs] (1893), an anthology compiled by Lucy E. Broadwood and J. A. Fuller Maitland. After having…

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The Saint Michael Hymnal #735

The Saint Michael Hymnal #735

The Summit Choirbook #308

The Summit Choirbook #308
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