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:::Hmm, yes, it's purely speculative, but I shouldn't be surprised if that was the case, given the non-British context; given the national preoccupation with the song in Britain, I wouldn't be surprised to hear it during any form of Christian services there, but I imagine it's a relative rarity in the Catholic context elsewhere. As to addressing your actual question more directly -- needless to say, it difficult to rule out the possibility that you heard another, similar piece (and I'm not particularly well-versed in hymns that anything jumps to mind for me personally), but [http://standpointmag.co.uk/culture-and-anarchy-may-13-jerusalem-the-golden-simon-heffer-hubert-parry?page=0%2C0%2C0%2C0%2C0%2C0%2C0%2C0%2C0%2C0%2C1 this reference] does seem to strongly imply that the work was a thoroughly original composition from Parry. [[User:Snow Rise|'''''<font color="#19a0fd">S</font><font color="#66c0fd">n</font><font color="#99d5fe">o</font><font color="#b2dffe">w</font>''''']] [[User talk:Snow Rise|talk]] 22:59, 25 May 2014 (UTC)

:::: This hymnal [http://www.kevinmayhew.com/catholic-hymns-old-new.html] - or rather an earlier edition of the same work - was widely used in Catholic churches and schools in the UK when I was growing up (the 1980s). If you expand the contents you'll see that it includes "And did those feet" (i.e. Jerusalem), and to the best of my recollection also did so in the volume in use in my childhood. We certainly did sing Jerusalem occasionally. In a British context, the tune is well-known regardless of religious affiliation, and as the previous poster mentioned is as much a patriotic song as a hymn. [[User:Valiantis|Valiantis]] ([[User talk:Valiantis|talk]]) 23:07, 25 May 2014 (UTC)