God rest ye merry, gentlemen; [ Em B7 Em] let nothing you dismay [ Em C B7] Remember Christ our Savior [ Em B7 Em] was born on Christmas Day [ Em C B7] To save us all from Satan's pow'r [ Am B7] when we were gone a-stray [ Em D/F# ] O tidings of comfort and joy, [ G CG B7 Em] comfort and joy! [ D ] O tidings of comfort and joy [ G (/A /B C ) B7 Em ] 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.