American country singer Garth Brooks's version of the song, for the week ending 8 January 2000, peaked at number sixty-nine each on Billboard Hot Country Songs[16] and Country Airplay. [4] It is also known as Tidings of Comfort and Joy, and by variant incipits as [CDATA[ God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen is a popular song by Chloe | Create your own TikTok videos with the God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen song and explore 54.4K videos made by new and popular creators. God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen (also known as God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen) is an English traditional Christmas carol. God rest you merry, gentlemen Let nothing you dismay Remember, Christ, our Saviour Was born on Christmas day To save us all from Satan’s power When we were gone astray From God our heavenly Father A blessed angel came. ‘God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen’ full lyrics. [5] [27] For the week ending 4 January 2014, the Canadian band Barenaked Ladies and singer-songwriter Sarah McLachlan's version, included in the band's 2004 holiday album Barenaked for the Holidays, charted as "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen / We Three Kings", peaking at number twenty-two on Billboard Holiday Digital Songs[28] and number twenty-five on Hot Canadian Digital Song Sales. [3], It is one of the oldest extant carols, dated to the 16th century or earlier. [Verse 1] Em C B7 God rest you merry, gentlemen, let nothing you dismay Em C B7 For Jesus Christ our Saviour was born upon this day Am G Em D … "God Rest Ye, Merry Christians" in Mildred Gauntlett, The word could mean "pleasant-sounding" (of animal voices), "handsome" (of a dress), "fine-tasting" (of herbs) or simply "fine" (of weather). Follow @genius on Twitter for updates The melody is in Aeolian mode. God rest ye merry, gentlemen, Let nothing you dismay Remember Christ our Saviour Was born on Christmas Day To save us all from Satan's power When we were gone astray. [30] For the week ending 3 January 2018, Christian band Tenth Avenue North and Christian singer Sarah Reeves's version peaked at number eleven on Christian AC Songs[31] and number forty-four on Christian Airplay. Oh tidings of comfort and joy. 394 in the Roud Folk Song Index. 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[10] It was published by William B. Sandys in 1833, although the author is unknown. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen Lyrics: God rest ye merry, gentlemen / Let nothing you dismay / Remember, Christ, our Saviour / Was born on Christmas day / To save us all from Satan's power / … //]]>, Sorry, we have to make sure you're a human before we can show you this page. Oh, tidings of comfort and joy God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen is an English traditional Christmas carol. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen *airhorn* by slugabed published on 2016-12-15T13:06:41Z. [32] Canadian duo Ali & Theo's version peaked at number twenty on the Canada AC for the week ending 28 December 2019. [33], "[a] poor woman with two children bundled at her back and one in her arms, and who, I am persuaded, was very far from knowning what she said", "the same carrols I have heard sung about the streets in this season for above these thirty years". Follow @genius O tidings of comfort and joy, comfort and joy; O tidings of comfort and joy! Letra GOD REST YE MERRY GENTLEMEN - MATTHEW FAGAN - CRISTIANA. The transitive use of the verb rest in the sense "to keep, cause to continue, to remain" is typical of 16th- to 17th-century language (the phrase rest you merry is recorded in the 1540s[8]). [11] In fact, ye would never have been correct, because ye is a subjective (nominative) pronoun only, never an objective (accusative) pronoun. Stream God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen *airhorn* by slugabed from desktop or your mobile device. O tidings of comfort and joy, Comfort and joy; O tidings of comfort and joy! 1760. This is the case already in the 1775 variant, and is also reflected by Dickens's replacement of the verb rest by bless in his 1843 quote of the incipit as "God bless you, merry gentlemen". Let nothing you dismay, God rest ye merry, gentlemen, Let nothing you dismay Remember Christ our Saviour Was born on Christmas Day To save us all from Satan's power When we were gone astray. This carol also is featured in the second movement of the 1927 Carol Symphony by Victor Hely-Hutchinson. [12] This version is shown here alongside the version reported by W. B. Sandys (1833)[13] and the version adopted by Carols for Choirs (OUP, 1961), which has become the de facto baseline reference in the UK. [6], The carol is referred to in Charles Dickens' 1843 A Christmas Carol: "... at the first sound of 'God bless you, merry gentlemen! God rest ye merry, gentlemen Let nothing you dismay Remember, Christ, our Saviour Was born on Christmas day To save us all from Satan's power When we were gone astray O tidings of comfort and joy, Comfort and joy O tidings of comfort and joy In Bethlehem, in Israel, This blessed Babe was born And laid within a manger Upon this blessed morn !function(t,e,r){var n,s=t.getElementsByTagName(e)[0],i=/^http:/.test(t.location)? Please enable Cookies and reload the page. Sa tonalité est La mineur. God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen est une hymne chrétienne traditionnelle et un chant de Noël. It’s our rallying song to show the world that, at Christmas time, things aren’t always what they appear to be. A variant text was printed in 1775 in The Beauties of the Magazines, and Other Periodical Works, Selected for a Series of Years. Was born upon this Day. ', Scrooge seized the ruler with such energy of action that the singer fled in terror, leaving the keyhole to the fog and even more congenial frost.". 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