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 jewry, this blessed babe   Was born   And laid within a manger upon this   Blessed morn;   The which his mother mary did nothing take   In scorn   O tidings of comfort and joy, comfort and joy   O tidings of comfort and joy.      From god, our heav'nly father, a blessed   Angel came,   And unto certain shepherds brought tidings   Of the same;   How that in bethlehem was born the son of   God by name,   O tidings of comfort and joy, comfort and joy,   O tidings of comfort and joy.