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God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen", also known as "God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen", is an English traditional Christmas carol. It is in the Roxburghe Collection (iii. 452), and is listed as no. 394 in the Roud Folk Song Index. It is also known as "Tidings of Comfort and Joy," and by other variant incipits.
The earliest known source documenting the existence of a carol called “God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen” is a broadsheet published in London around 1760 that included the song as part of a collection of “Three new Christmas carols” (emphasis ours), which suggests the song originated much closer to the mid-18th century than the 15th century.
William Sandys (1792 – 18 February 1874) (pronounced "Sands") was an English solicitor, member of the Percy Society, fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, and remembered for his publication Christmas Carols Ancient and Modern (London, Richard Beckley, 1833), a collection of seasonal carols that Sandys had gathered and also apparently improvised.
The album includes all twelve tracks from McLachlan's 2006 Christmas album, Wintersong and five other Christmas songs. "God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen / We Three Kings" was recorded backstage by Barenaked Ladies and McLachlan using one mic and done in one take at Planetfest in December 1996 for US radio station WPLT. [2]
"God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen" – 4:36 "The Christmas Song" – 4:08 "I'll Be Home for Christmas" – 2:04 "O Holy Night" – 3:20 "This Gift" – 4:08
His rondo arrangement of the Christmas carol "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen" was apparently the first version of the tune to appear in print, before 1815. [15] anthems described by Wesley himself in a letter "too numerous to particularize"
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God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen [6] 1919 English traditional English traditional, arranged by David V. Willcocks: God would be Born in Thee [10] (Lo, in the Silent Night a Child in God is Born) 2004 Silesius, Angelus: Bingham, Judith: Hark! The Herald Angels Sing [6] 1918 and every year since Wesley, Charles, and Whitefield, George