Traditional. publ.1853

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God rest ye merry, gentlemen;
Em          C      B7
let nothing you dismay
Em       B7            Em
Remember Christ our Savior
Em          C         B7
was born on Christmas Day
Am                  B7
To save us all from Satan's pow'r
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when we were gone a-stray
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O tidings of comfort and joy,
D
comfort and joy!
G C          B7          Em
O tidings of comfort and joy

In Bethlehem, in Israel, this blessed Babe was born, and laid within a manger
upon this blessed morn; The which His Mother Mar-y did nothing take in scorn.

>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.