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God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen

"God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen," also known as "God Rest Ye 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.

God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen

Traditional

8.6.8.6.8.6 with refrain

includes the carol in his 1910 choral fantasy Christmas Day.[29]

Gustav Holst

The third movement of 's Carol Symphony (1927) is a scherzo on the tune of God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen.

Victor Hely-Hutchinson

American singer Bing Crosby (1945)

Merry Christmas (Bing Crosby album)

American rock band plays a snippet on the song "Good Morning" from the Number_5_(Steve_Miller_Band_album) (1970)

Steve Miller Band

American country singer (2000)[30][31]

Garth Brooks

American rock band (2002), as "God Rest Ye Metal Gentlemen", released online[32][33] and on a special tour edition of the album Life, Love & Hope.[34][35]

Boston

The Canadian band and singer-songwriter Sarah McLachlan, on the 2004 album Barenaked for the Holidays[36][37]

Barenaked Ladies

American contemporary Christian band (2006)[38][39][40][41]

MercyMe

American smooth jazz gospel singer (2010)[42]

Tim Bowman

The (2010)[43]

cast of Glee

Grammy and Oscar winning singer Annie Lennox on the 2010 album A Christmas Cornucopia

American metalcore band (2011)[44][45][46][47]

August Burns Red

Irish singer performed a cover on BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge in 2015.[48]

Hozier

American a-capella band , on the 2016 album A Pentatonix Christmas, and on the soundtrack of the 2018 animated film adaptation of The Grinch[49]

Pentatonix

Christian band with Sarah Reeves (2016)[50][51]

Tenth Avenue North

American violinist , on the 2022 album Snow Waltz

Lindsey Stirling

American singer on her 2022 album Winterlicious

Debbie Gibson

List of Christmas carols

The New Oxford Book of Carols, ed. Hugh Keyte and Andrew Parrott (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992), p. 527