God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen

God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen İngilizce geleneksel Noel şarkısı.

Şarkı sözleri

İlk kaydedilen versiyon Three New Christmas Carols'ta yaklaşık 1760'ta bulunmuştur. İlk kısmında şöyle yazar:

God rest you merry, Gentlemen,
Let nothing you dismay,
For Jesus Christ our Saviour
Was born upon this Day.
To save poor souls from Satan's power,
Which long time had gone astray.
Which brings tidings of comfort and joy.

Kaydedenler

• Gustav Holst
• Bing Crosby
• John Lewis
• Mannheim Steamroller
• Mariah Carey
• In 1994 Apogee Software released the video game Rise of the Triad for the DOS operating system. If the internal clock of the player's computer indicated that the date was 25 December, the game's background music was replaced with an up-beat arrangement of "God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen," by Lee Jackson, called "God Rest Ye Deadly Gentlemen."
• Savatage
• Kenny G
• Bright Eyes
• Barenaked Ladies
• Loreena McKennitt
• Ronnie James Dio ve Black Sabbath gitaristi Tony Iommi
• Annie Lennox
• Pentatonix.
• Riverdale ekibi

Kaynakça

1. ^ , 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.)
2. ^ Three new carols for Christmas, printed by J. Smart (c. 1780–1800), has the first verse:
   God rest you merry Gentlemen,
   Let nothing you dismay;
   Remember Christ our Saviour,
   Was born on Christmas-day;
   To save our souls from Satan's power,
   Which long time had gone astray:
   This brings Tidings of Comfort and Joy.
   Three new carols for Christmas. 1. God rest you merry gentlemen, &c. 2. Good Christian people pray give ear. 3. Let all good Christian people here." Wolverhampton, [between ca. 1780 and 1800?].
3. ^ "Loreena McKennit - GOD REST YE MERRY GENTLEMEN". 2 Aralık 2009. 31 Aralık 2012 tarihinde kaynağından . Erişim tarihi: 16 Aralık 2018 – YouTube vasıtasıyla. 
4. ^ "Annie Lennox - God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen". 4 Kasım 2010. 26 Aralık 2010 tarihinde kaynağından . Erişim tarihi: 16 Aralık 2018 – YouTube vasıtasıyla. 
5. ^ "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen - Pentatonix". 23 Kasım 2016. 24 Kasım 2016 tarihinde kaynağından . Erişim tarihi: 16 Aralık 2018 – YouTube vasıtasıyla. 
6. ^ "Riverdale Season 2 Episode 9 Recap Silent Night, Deadly". Refinery29.com. 9 Nisan 2018 tarihinde kaynağından . Erişim tarihi: 16 Aralık 2018.