Forest Green
English folk song.
I have set this melody in several arrangements; this is actually the most rambunctious of the lot! This is really my all-time favorite melody. I anticipate setting it a dozen or more different ways.
For example, this is the melody the English use for the Christmas carol O Little Town of Bethlehem, and I have arranged it more lyrically for that song. Perhaps someday it will make it onto a CD.
And, of course, I used this melody for the final section of my arrangement of All Through the Night on Under the Greenwood Tree. That is a far more lyrical arrangement as well.
Who knows, perhaps someday I’ll create an entire album of arrangements of Forest Green!