The Tune, Called “Old One-Hundredth”

You faithful servants of the Lord,
sing out his praise with one accord,
while serving him with all your might
and keeping vigil through the night.

Unto his house lift up your hand
and to the Lord your praises send.
May God who made the earth and sky
bestow his blessings from on high.

This song is sung with the tune of the Doxology hymn.

Old 100th is commonly used to sing the lyrics that begin “All People That on Earth Do Dwell,” Psalm 100, a version that originated in the Anglo-Genevan Psalter (1561) and is attributed to the Scottish clergyman William Kethe.^[5]

Kethe was in exile at Geneva at this time, as the Scottish Reformation was only just beginning. This version was sung at the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953, with harmonization and arrangement by the composer Ralph Vaughan Williams. The first verse is as follows:^[6]

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.

A hymn commonly sung to Old 100th is “Praise God, from Whom All Blessings Flow,” using the text often referred to as the Doxology, written in 1674 by Thomas Ken, a bishop in the Church of England.^[7]This hymn was originally the final verse of a longer hymn entitled “Awake, My Soul, and With the Sun,”^[8] though it is most commonly sung by itself as a doxology. The traditional text is:

Praise God, from Whom all blessings flow;
Praise Him, all creatures here below;
Praise Him above, ye heavenly host;
Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.