Psalm 23

In Psalm 23, the psalmist says, 'The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing. He makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside still waters, he refreshes my soul.'

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Psalm 23

A psalm of David.

The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing.
He makes me lie down in green pastures,
he leads me beside quiet waters, he refreshes my soul.
He guides me along the right paths for his name’s sake.
Even though I walk  through the darkest valley,
I will fear no evil, for you are with me;
your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies.
You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.

Surely your goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life,
and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.


Dr William Baird Ross was the organist at Broughton Place United Presbyterian Church from 1895 and then became organist at hte Church of the Holy Rude in Stirling.

He also founded the Edinburgh Society of Organists ands served as the President between 1913 and 1915.

In 1914, he composed a descant part for the tune Crimond, written by Jessie Seymour Irvine, which is popularly used for the words of Psalm 23.

Princess Elizabeth, as she was then, insisted on having Crimond with the descant part played at her wedding to Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, in 1947. She had heard the tune at a church in Scotland and, as it was unpublished, her Lady-in-Waiting, Lady Margaret Colville had to sing the tune to the Precentor in Westminster Abbey the night before the wedding.

Crimond, with Baird Ross' descant,  was sung at the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II in 2023.