Full Lyrics
VERSE 1
God rest you merry gentlemen let nothing you dismay
For Jesus Christ our Saviour was born upon this day
To save us all from Satans pow'r when we were gone astray.
REFRAIN
O tidings of comfort and joy
Comfort and joy
O tidings of comfort and joy.
VERSE 2
From God our heavenly father, a blessed angel came;
And unto certain shepherds, brought tiding of the same
How that in Bethlehem, was born the Son of God by name.
VERSE 3
The shepherds at his tidings, rejoiced much in mind,
And left their flock a fading, in tempest storm and wind
And went to Bethlehem straight way this blessed babe to find.
VERSE 4
But when to Bethlehem they came, where at the infant lay.
They found Him in a manger, where oxen feed on hay;
His mother, Mary kneeling unto the Lord did pray.
VERSE 5
Now to the Lord sing praises all you within this place,
And with true love and brotherhood, each other now embrace
This holytide of Christmas all others doth deface.
