
Album No. 28
1965
God rest ye merry, gentlemen
Victor Hely-Hutchinson
Ray Conniff
Lyrics:
God rest you merry, gentlemen, let nothing you dismay.
Remember, Christ our Savior was born on Christmas day.
To save us all from Satan's pow'r 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.
And then 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 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:
O tidings of comfort and joy, comfort and joy!
O tidings of comfort and joy!
The shepherds at those tidings rejoiced much in mind.
And left their flocks a-feeding, in tempest, and in wind.
And went to Bethlehem straightaway the Son of God to find:
O tidings of comfort and joy, comfort and joy!
O tidings of comfort and joy!
Tidings of comfort and joy!