God rest ye merry, gentlemen; [ E5 B5 Em] let nothing you dismay [ E5 C5 B7] Remember Christ our Savior [ E5 B5 Em] was born on Christmas Day [ E5 C5 B7] To save us all from Satan's pow'r [ A5 B7] when we were gone a-stray [ E5 D5 ] O tidings of comfort and joy, [ G5 CG5 B5 Em] comfort and joy! [ D5 ] O tidings of comfort and joy [ G5 (/A /B C5 ) B5 E5 ] In Bethlehem , in Israel, this blessed Babe was born, and laid within a manger upon this blessed morn; The which His Mother Mar-y did nothing take in scorn. >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.