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 O tidings of comfort and joy, comfort and joy O tidings of comfort and joy In bethlehem, in [incomprehensible] this blessed babe was born And laid within a manger upon this blessed morn The which 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 tiding 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, storm and wind And went to bethlehem straightway, the son of god to find O tidings of comfort and joy, comfort and joy O tidings of comfort and joy