Hymn of the month god rest ye merry, gentlemen viscount organs. God rest you merry, gentlemen oregon catholic press. The song we sing today has a completely different meaning then at the time it originated. The original meaning was rest in the sense of keep, requiring the comma in a different place. Play popular songs and traditional music with note letters for easy fun beginner instrument practice. The hymn god rest ye merry gentlemen is over 500 years. Dated back to the 1500s and earlier, this english carol has actually gone through a lot of change and misinterpretation over the years. Over the centuries, times and meanings have changed. Traditional english melody this traditional english carol, included in the 1966 methodist hymnal, was deleted from the 1989 united methodist hymnal.
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