lutheranhymns

First things first, this is not a traditional Quaker song. It was written by the same person as these two, which are much more identifiably "1800s USA white guy." However, this one would pick up a few extra verses in the 1950s about "when tyrants tremble" and "when friends rejoice," and the (mis)identification of modern-day friends with the Society of Friends stuck. Then it got picked up by Pete Seeger, who rearranged the verse/chorus structure (increasing the Shannon density because now there's no repeated chorus!) and turned it into a slightly less explicitly religious text ("since love is lord of heaven and earth," rather than "since Christ"). And that was the version that got big, at least it was in my folky family; this was one of my mom's favorites to play on guitar in her ~~hippie~~ socially-conscious youth phase. Probably still is, TBF.

There are other arrangements that go even further in the hippie direction and try to de-Jesusify it (see here) which my choir has also done. For me the Seeger version is still the best balance between that and the hymnal staidness.