Thank you so much for posting. This is a difficult tune to find online.

This tune is in the 1932 Hymns and Spiritual Songs for The little Flock - with tunes.

It is one of two tunes suggested for the wonderful hymn:-

What-was it, blessed God,
Led Thee to give Thy Son,
To yield Thy Well-beloved,
For us by sin undone?
'Twas love unbounded led Thee thus
To give Thy Well-beloved for us.

It was number 155 then, and I see that it is in the "Psalms and Hymns and Spiritual Songs Selected 1978 with the same number, but a completely different tune.

Fairford is still present in the 1978 tune book - for Hymn 80

On earth the song begins,
In heav'n more sweet and loud.......

Regards,

Steve H

There is another, quite different, tune named FAIRFORD (from Schubert) set in the same key, which suits the 7.6.7.6.D metre.

It is in various hymn books, including Hymns of Light and Love - No. 913