"To the tune of "A Dove on Distant Oaks."
Actually, that's directly from the Bible, at least my NIV Bible. It's David's direction to "the director of music". "Psalms" means "songs". The book of Psalms is roughly equivalent to our modern day hymnals. Apparently, they even had tunes back then.
Yes, I know. That's exactly meant to be the source of my humor: 3,000 years old, and it's STILL a remake! It's kinda funny to me to think of a psalm being written to the melody of another song, lost to history.
(Except Dick Clark... He's THAT old.)