God rest ye merry, gentlemen Let nothing you dismay Remember, Christ, our savior Was born on Christmas day To save us all from Satan's power When we were gone astray
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In Bethlehem, in Jewry This blessed Babe was born And laid within a manger Above this blessed morn And then his mother Mary Did nothing take in scorn
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From God our heavenly 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
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The shepherds at those tidings Rejoiced much in mind And left their flocks a-feeding In tempest, storm and wind And went to Bethlehem straightway This Son of God to find