{"id":24917,"date":"2020-12-10T15:18:14","date_gmt":"2020-12-10T15:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idea.membrane.com\/songwriter\/?p=24917"},"modified":"2025-03-26T14:10:42","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T14:10:42","slug":"god-rest-ye-merry-gentlemen-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2020\/12\/10\/god-rest-ye-merry-gentlemen-2\/","title":{"rendered":"God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Traditional English Carol<\/p>\n<pre>    Em                            C              B7\nGod rest ye merry, gentlemen, let nothing you dismay\n    Em                           C              B7\nFor Jesus Christ our Saviour was born upon this day\n   Am               G                  Em            D\nTo save us all from Satan's pow'r when we were gone astray\n  G          B7          Em               D\nO tidings of comfort and joy, comfort and joy\n  G          B7          Em\nO tidings of comfort and joy\n\nFrom God our heavenly Father a blessed angel came\nAnd unto certain shepherds brought tidings of the same\nHow that in Bethlehem was born the Son of God by name\nO tidings of comfort and joy, comfort and joy\nO tidings of comfort and joy\n\nThe shepherds at those tidings rejoiced much in mind\nAnd left their flocks a-feeding in tempest, storm and wind\nAnd went to Bethlehem straightway this blessed Babe to find\nO tidings of comfort and joy, comfort and joy\nO tidings of comfort and joy\n\nBut when to Bethlehem they came whereat this Infant lay\nThey found Him in a manger where oxen feed on hay\nHis mother Mary kneeling unto the Lord did pray\n\nNow to the Lord sing praises, all you within this place\nAnd with true love and brotherhood each other now embrace\nThis holy tide of Christmas all other doth deface\n<\/pre>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/membrane.com\/xmas\/Christmas-Cure\/videos\/God-Rest-Ye-Merry-Gentlemen.mp4\"> God-Rest-Ye-Merry-Gentlemen.mp4<\/a> (Video)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/membrane.com\/xmas\/Christmas-Cure\/God-Rest-Ye-Merry-Gentlemen.mp3\">God-Rest-Ye-Merry-Gentlemen.mp3<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/membrane.com\/xmas\/Christmas-Cure\/videos\/God-Rest-Ye-Merry-Gentlemen-Guitar-Loop.mp4\">God-Rest-Ye-Merry-Gentlemen-Guitar-Loop.mp4<\/a> (Video)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/membrane.com\/xmas\/Christmas-Cure\/instrumentals\/God-Rest-Ye-Merry-Gentlemen-Guitar-Loop.mp3\">God-Rest-Ye-Merry-Gentlemen-Guitar-Loop.mp3<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/membrane.com\/xmas\/\">Christmas 2020 album<\/a> of music <a href=\"http:\/\/membrane.com\/xmas\/Christmas-Cure\/\"><strong><em>Christmas Cure<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Traditional English Carol Em C B7 God rest ye merry, gentlemen, let nothing you dismay Em C B7 For Jesus Christ our Saviour was born upon this day Am G Em D To save us all from Satan&#8217;s pow&#8217;r when we were gone astray G B7 Em D O tidings of comfort and joy, comfort [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7,9,14],"tags":[1491,89,3839,3210,272,312,395,421,530,539,556,613,1281,761,781,819],"class_list":["post-24917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chords","category-christmas-music","category-daniel","category-lyrics","tag-alternative-rock","tag-audio","tag-christmas-cure","tag-christmas-music","tag-extemporaneous","tag-free","tag-holiday","tag-improv","tag-modern","tag-mp3","tag-music","tag-original","tag-progressive-rock","tag-singer-songwriter","tag-songs","tag-streaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24917"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24921,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24917\/revisions\/24921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}