The Old Hundreth Psalm Tune

Vaughan Williams, Ralph (1872–1958)

Voicing:
Mixed Choir → SATB
Congregational → With Choir

Accompaniment:
Organ → With Instruments

Occasion:

Proper of Time → The Weeks in Ordinary Time → General Ordinary Time

Publication Information:
Oxford University Press — No. 42.953 (1953)

Text Information:
Reference: W. Kethe: Day's Psalter, 1560

Lyrics:

1. All people that on earth do dwell, 
sing to the Lord with cheerful voice. 
Him serve with mirth, his praise forth tell;
come ye before him and rejoice. 

2. Know that the Lord is God indeed; 
without our aid he did us make; 
we are his folk, he doth us feed, 
and for his sheep he doth us take. 

3. O enter then his gates with praise; 
approach with joy his courts unto; 
praise, laud, and bless his name always, 
for it is seemly so to do. 

4. For why? the Lord our God is good; 
his mercy is forever sure; 
his truth at all times firmly stood, 
and shall from age to age endure. 

5. To Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,
The God whom heaven and earth adore,
From men and from the angel host
Be praise and glory evermore. 
Amen.

Notes: arranged for the coronation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in Westminster Abbey on Tuesday, 2 June 1953
Submitted by: Anthony DiCello Added: Jun 16, 2022