God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen

God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen İngilizce geleneksel Noel şarkısı.Come All You Worthy Gentlemen, For Christmas, Also known as The Somerset Carol, Title: "A Christmas Carol" Words and Music: English Traditional from Mr. Rapsey, of Bridgwater, Somerset. Cecil J. Sharp, ed., Folk Songs From Somerset. Series V. Second Edition. (London: Simpkin & Co., Ltd, 1909), #CXXVI, A Christmas Carol, pp. 68–69.
"Come all you worthy gentlemen /
That may be standing by. /
Christ our blessed Saviour /
Was born on Christmas day. /
The blessed virgin Mary /
Unto the Lord did say, O we wish you the comfort and tidings of joy! / God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen"

"Words and air from Mr. Rapsey, of Bridgwater. Mr. Rapsey told me that he learned this carol from his mother, and that when he was a lad. he used to go round Bridgwater in company with other boys at Christmas time singing it. It is, apparently, a shortened version of the well known carol 'God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen' [...] Mr. Rapsey's words were not very clear and I was compelled to amend them in one or two places, but they appear in the text substantially as he sang them. The word 'say' in the penultimate lines of the first two verses I was at first inclined to regard as a corruption for 'pray,' which is the usual reading. But the Rev. Allen Brockington thought that 'say' was merely used intransitively, as is not unusual in Somerset, for 'talk,' i.e. 'prattle.' As this is at least a possible explanation I have retained the word that Mr. Rapsay sang."
(Notes on the Songs, p. 91.)

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