Lord Is My Shepherd, The (Psalm 23)

DESCRIPTION: Psalm 23, made metrical: "The Lord’s my shepherd; I’ll not want. He makes me down to lie In pastures green He leadeth me by the (still/quiet) waters." Etc.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1927 (Rodeheaver-SociabilitySongs)
KEYWORDS: religious shepherd nonballad campsong
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REFERENCES (2 citations):
Averill-CampSongsFolkSongs, p. 446, "The Lord Is My Shepherd" (notes only)
Rodeheaver-SociabilitySongs, p. 91, "The Lord Is My Shepherd" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #12306 and 22035 and 22039 and 32565
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Irreverence" (parody of Psalm 23)
SAME TUNE:
The Ford Psalm ("The Ford is my master; I shall not live in peace") (Solomon-ZickaryZan, p. 114; no tune is indicated, but presumably it's one or another Psalm 23 version)
NOTES [78 words]: Psalm 23 is without question the most popular of the psalms, and has been paraphrased, made metrical, translated, retranslated, de-translated, and made into a song many times. Few of these have any hold on tradition. I've had to guess which text Averill means -- but it hardly matters, since I'm going to file any other Psalm 23 texts here; given that they are all minor paraphrases, it's not really possible to be sure which versions are related and which aren't. - RBW
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File: ACSF446L

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