Traditionell engelsk carol, i ett vagt bisarrt arrangemang av J. Stainer.
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| 1. God rest you merry gentlemen, let nothing you dismay, | 4. "Fear not," then said the angel, "Let nothing you affright, |
| for Jesus Christ, our Saviour, was born upon this day | this day is born a Saviour of a pure virgin bright, |
| to save us all from Satan's power when we had gone astray | to free all those who trust in him from Satan's power and might." |
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| O tidings of comfort and joy, | 5. The shepherds at those tidings rejoiced much in mind, |
| comfort and joy, | and left their flocks a-feeding in tempest, storm and wind, |
| O tidings of comfort and joy. | and straight they came to Bethlehem the blessed babe to find: |
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| 2. In Bethlehem in Jery this blessed babe was born | 6. And when to Bethlehem they came, to where the infant lay, |
| and laid within a manger upon this blessed morn; | they found him in a manger where oxen feed on hay; |
| the which his mother Mary did nothing take in scorn. | His mother Mary, kneeling, unto the Lord did pray: |
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| 3. From God, our heav'nly Father, a blessed angel came | 7. Now to the Lord sing praises, all you within this place |
| and unto certain shepherds brought tidings of the same, | and with true love and brotherhood each other now embrace; |
| how that in Bethlehem was born the Son of God by name: | this holy tide of Christmas all others doth deface: |
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