1. God rest you merry, gentlemen,

Let nothing you dismay

Remember Christ our Savior

Was born on Christmas Day;

To save us all from Satan’s pow’r

When we were gone astray.

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          O tidings of comfort and joy

2. From God our heav’nly Father

The blessed angel came

And unto certain shepherds

Brought tidings of the same

How that in Bethlehem was born

The Son of God by name.

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3. “Fear not, then,” said the angel

“Let nothing you affright,

This day is born a Savior

Of a pure Virgin bright,

To free all those who trust in Him

From Satan’s pow’r and might.”

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4. The shepherds at those tidings

Rejoiced much in mind,

And left their flocks a-feeding

In tempest, storm, and wind,

And went to Bethlehem straightway

This blessed Babe to find.

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5. But when to Bethlehem they came,

Whereat this Infant lay,

They found Him in a manger,

Where oxen feed on hay;

His mother Mary kneeling

Unto the Lord did pray.

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6. Now to the Lord sing praises,

All you within this place,

And with true love and brotherhood

Each other now embrace;

This holy tide of Christmas

All others doth deface.

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