God rest you merry, gentlemen

God rest you merry, gentlemen, Let nothing you dismay,
For Jesus Christ our Saviour was born upon this day,
To save us all from Satan’s power When we were gone astray:
O tidings of comfort and joy, 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 ...

The shepherds at these tidings Rejoiced much in mind,
And let their flocks a-feeding,  in tempest,  storm and wind,
And went to Bethlehem straightway This blessed babe to find.
O ...

But when to Bethlehem they came, Whereat this infant lay,
they found him in a  manger, Where oxen feed on hay;
His mother Mary kneeling,  unto the Lord did pray:
O ...