| O Little Town of Bethlehem | |
|---|---|
 Author's manuscript of first stanza | |
| Genre | Christmas carol |
| Written | 1868 |
| Text | Phillips Brooks |
| Based on | Micah 5:2 |
| Meter | 8.6.8.6.7.6.8.6 |
| Melody | "St. Louis" by Lewis Redner, "Forest Green" by Ralph Vaughan Williams |
"O Little Town of Bethlehem" is a Christmas carol. Based on an 1868 text written by Phillips Brooks, the carol is popular on both sides of the Atlantic, but to different tunes: in the United States, to "St. Louis" by Brooks' collaborator, Lewis Redner; and in the United Kingdom, Canada, and Ireland to "Forest Green", a tune collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams and first published in the 1906 English Hymnal.