![]() Medley: We Wish You a Merry Christmas God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen O Come, All Ye Faithful Joy t… The Jimmy Joyce Singers with Orchestra conducted by Billy May Silent Night God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen The Coventry Carol God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen Deck the Hall with Boughs of Holly A Christmas Carol written by Tom Lehrer Englishīing Crosby with John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra. ![]() God Rest written by Jaydn Valdez, Mike Yeager, S Blake Kanicka EnglishĪ partial adaptation is a musical work which integrates only a part of another musical work, and this part is only a fragment of the new musical work.God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen written by Wild Earp English.God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen (Hallelujah) written by Gareth Gilkeson, Stephen Mitchell, Chris Llewellyn English.Comfort and Joy written by Tori Amos English.Pokémon written by Bob Rivers, Joe Bryant, Spike O'Neill English.God Rest Ye, Merry Cattlemen written by John Olson, Terry Esau English.The Restroom Door Said "Gentlemen" written by Bob Rivers, Brian Silva, Dennis Amero English.Shticks and Stones written by Allan Sherman English.God Rest You Merry Gentlemen written by English Licensing Request a synchronization license The words have been put to several tunes over the years, the oldest and most common of which may have its origins in a dance named "Chestnut (or Doves Figary)", first published in John Playford's The English Dancing Master (1651). Charles Dickens mentioned it in his novella "A Christmas Carol" (1843). By the early 1700s, the carol was beginning to be printed in broadsides (with "God rest you merry Gentlemen" as the first line) and by the turn of the century into the 1800s, the carol had become very popular and well-known. The words are recognisably those of the carol, although the first line is "Sit you merry Gentlemen". While some sources (without much evidence) date the carol to the 16th century or even earlier, the earliest known text is in a handwritten volume of recusant verse and prose associated with Jesuit families in Warwickshire that was assembled in the 1650s. Traditional English carol whose origins are unknown. We may get it wrong, but it's been part of Christmas tradition since 1760, and it's not going to change now.Written by Language English Tags It was a reasonable assumption that the people being addressed weren't just gentlemen but merry gentlemen. This wasn't until 1760, in a broadsheet and again around 1780 in the collection Three New Carols for Christmas:īy the late 18th century the Tudor expression 'God rest ye merry' had long since fallen out of use. The confusion arose when the carol was first published. The proper placing of the comma is 'God rest ye merry, gentlemen'. So, how did the original meaning come to be changed? It's all about a comma. "God rest you, merry gentlemen" - people have been getting it wrong since 1760. "Gentlemen, may God keep you in a pleasant state." What the carol's writers had in mind was: "Merry Gentlemen - let God grant you repose." What many people now understand by the expression is: 'Merry' meant 'pleasant harmonious happy'. The meaning of 'rest' was then 'keep cause to continue'. To grasp the meaning of 'God rest you merry' as understood by the Tudors we need to take the expression apart. ![]() And, sorry ladies, in Tudor England you didn't often get a mention. The carol God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen was probably written in the Tudor era, but it wasn't printed until 1760. Most people misunderstand the meaning of this title. Good felow god you saue, or o louynge frende god rest you mery. The first time that 'God rest you merry' was put into print was also from a Latin translation, this time Nicholas Udall's Floures for Latine Spekynge gathered oute of Terence: 'Rest ye merry' was used as early as 1300, in Old English, in the popular romantic tale Floris and Blauncheflur.Ī more readable version is found in the Latin dictionary Bibliotheca Eliotae, edited and published by the English Bishop Thomas Cooper in 1548:īee thou gladde: or joyfull, as the vulgare people saie Reste you mery. ![]() What's the origin of the phrase 'God rest you merry gentlemen'?Īpart from being the title of a carol, the expression 'God rest you merry gentlemen' is notable for being almost universally misunderstood.Ī clue to a proper reading of the line is that the phrases 'rest ye merry' and 'God rest ye merry' were commonplace expressions of goodwill in Medieval England. The expression is no longer used other than as the title and first line of the popular Christmas Carol. 'God rest you (or ye) merry gentlemen' means 'Gentlemen, may god keep you in harmony and happiness'. The sayings of Nicholas Udall What's the meaning of the phrase 'God rest you merry gentlemen'?.
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