While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night sheet music (Traditional melody)

In the UK and Commonwealth countries, the standard hymn tune of "While Shepherds Watched" is "Winchester", originally published in Este's psalter The Whole Book of Psalmes from 1592. Daniel Read published his tune "Sherburne" in 1785, a popular setting that appeared over seventy times in print before 1810 and is still commonly sung by Sacred Harp singers.