God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen (traditional, no arrangement credits here)

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lyricist and composer:	[traditional]

part of:	Roud Folk Song Index (number: 394) (order: 214)

lyrics page:	https://genius.com/Bing-crosby-god-rest-ye-merry-gentlemen-lyrics [info]
SecondHandSongs:	https://secondhandsongs.com/work/43909 [info]
Wikidata:	Q1512638 [info]

referred to in medleys:	A Majestic Christmas Theme Jingle Bells Medley Medley God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen / We Three Kings (order: 1) Christmas Collage (order: 2) Christmas Day (order: 2) Mix 4 (order: 2) A Christmas Festival (order: 3) Megamix 4 (order: 4) Mix Four (order: 4) Noëls pour cordes (order: 6)
later parody versions:	It’s a Fanboy Christmas The Restroom Door Said, "Gentlemen"
later translated versions:	God zegene de kinderen Guds frid i gode vise män
later versions:	God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen Merry Gentlemen's Bounce Sulphur Ahoy
is the basis for:	A Star to Follow Don’t Be Afraid (God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen) Handel’s Torch Hark! The Merry Gentleman, op. 90 Men of Goodwill: Variations on a Christmas Carol Paraphrase on ‘God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen’ PDX-mas Carol Take a Break Guys Variations on "God rest ye merry, Gentlemen" ƻԶշՉոժ Ƿզվ Օճ ƆիԻıՏեՊգՖ Ҩϫჱ (ŦĦŦ ˝Ѩ‐Ѩ‐ѺƔ˝ ü ŦĦŦ)
arrangements:	Christmas Sweet: God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen Deadly Gentlemen God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen God rest ye merry, gentlemen God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen Rondo alla Natale
music quoted in:	Ghost of Marley

Recordings

Date	Title	Attributes	Artist	Length
	recordings
1942-06-08	God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (1942-06-08 recording)		Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra	2:19
1942-06-08	God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen		Bing Crosby	2:21
1942-06-08	God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen (1942-06-08 recording)		Bing Crosby	2:19
1947-12-23	God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen	live	Fred Waring & His Pennsylvanians	2:04
1956-10-26	God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen	instrumental	The Modern Jazz Quartet	5:04
1959-07-13 – 1959-07-15	God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen (1959 recording, stereo)		Perry Como with Mitchell Ayres and His Orchestra and the Ray Charles Singers	2:56
1961-06	God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen		Leontyne Price, Wiener Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan	2:31
1961-10	God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen	instrumental	The Ramsey Lewis Trio	3:20
1962-03-29	God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen		Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy	2:50
1964-04-20	God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen (trio)	cover and instrumental	Jimmy Smith	6:08
1964-09-29	God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen (big band)	instrumental	Jimmy Smith	4:20
1967	God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen		The Philadelphia Brass Ensemble	1:09
1972-08-14 – 1972-08-16	God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen	instrumental	Gary Mann	2:47
1983-05-11 – 1983-05-12	God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen		[traditional]	1:14
1983-05-11 – 1983-05-12	God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen (slower version)		[traditional]	1:53
1984-03-20	God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen		Choir of King's College, Cambridge	3:29
1984-03-27 – 1984-04-02	God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen		Jerry Goldsmith	1:12
1987-02	God Rest You Merry Gentlemen		Maddy Prior with The Carnival Band	4:34
1989-05	God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen	instrumental	Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra, Košice	7:00
1991-12-08	God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen	live	Jerry Garcia & David Grisman	9:36
1994-01	God Rest You Merry Gentlemen		Tapiolan kuoro, Erkki Pohjola, Helsingin kaupunginorkesteri, Jorma Panula, Jorma Hynninen	1:53
1994-12 –	Snow/God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman	live	Loreena McKennitt	9:13
1997-04	God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen		Carus‐Quintett, Fränkisches Posaunenquartett	6:02
1997-08-28 – 1997-08-29	God Rest you Merry Gentlemen		Jean-Christophe Robert, Evan Rothstein, Helga Schauerte	1:03
1998-02 – 1998-03	For Christ’s Sake	cover, instrumental and live	IQ	5:17
1998-12-14	God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen		Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury	3:32
2001-12	God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen	live	Loreena McKennitt	4:03
2001 – 2002	God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen		Canadian Brass	1:49
2002-03 – 2002-04	God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen		Crash Test Dummies	2:50
2002	God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen	instrumental	The Ventures	3:01
2007	God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman		Joni Madden	2:42
2008-12 – 2016-12	God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen		Bach Society of Saint Louis, A. Dennis Sparger	4:03
2009	God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen	instrumental	8 Bit Weapon & ComputeHer	2:15
2011-05	God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen		Cantus, Øystein Baadsvik, Trondheim Symfoniorkester, Torodd Wigum	5:03
2011	God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen		Bad Religion	1:39
2013-05-13 – 2013-05-15	God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen / Good King Wenceslas	medley	Ensemble Galilei	3:41
2015-01	God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen	instrumental	Alan Barnes	4:11
2019	God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen	cover and instrumental	Greyskull	2:28
2020	God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen	cover and instrumental	Les Penning with Robert Reed	3:01
2021	Three Carols	instrumental and medley	Jeff Pearce	14:32
2023	God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen	cover	Fire From Heaven	3:22
2023	God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (instrumental)	cover and instrumental	Fire From Heaven	3:22
	A Christmas Festival (Medley)	medley	Arthur Fiedler & Boston Pops Orchestra	9:43
	A Footprint in the Ashes on New Year's Day	instrumental and partial	The Iditarod	6:11
	A Soulin' / God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen		Tom Jackson	4:34
	Carol Medley: Joy to the World / God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen / Hark! The Herald Angels Sing	medley	The Ralph Hunter Choir	?:??
	Christmas / Sarajevo 12/24	cover	George Lynch	3:15
	Christmas Medley: Once in Royal David's City / God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen / Hark the Herald Angels Sing	medley and partial	The Idea of North	?:??
	Christmas Medley: We Wish You a Merry Christmas / God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen / O Come All Ye Faithful / Joy the World	medley	Harry Belafonte	4:32
	Christmas Praise: Hark the Herald Angels Sing / God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen / O Come All Ye Faithful	instrumental and medley	Cambridge Heath Band	?:??
	Christmas Trilogy: God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen		Twin Cities Gay Men's Chorus	?:??
	Christmas With the Joker: God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen		Michael McCuistion	0:47
	Come Ye Merry Gentlemen	cover and instrumental	Santa's Players	3:19
	Coventry Carol / Go Tell It on the Mountain / God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen		[unknown]	8:47
	For Christ’s Sake (7 Stories Into 8)	cover and instrumental	IQ	5:05
	God Bless You Merry Gentlemen		Bing Crosby & Frank Sinatra	1:15
	God Bless You Merry Gentlemen		Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby	1:17
	God Bless You Merry Gentlemen		Bing Crosby & Frank Sinatra	1:17
	God Bless You Merry Gentlemen		Frank Sinatra & Bing Crosby	?:??
	God Bless You Merry Gentlemen		Bing Crosby	1:15
	God Bless You Merry Gentlemen		Bing Crosby	1:13
	God Rest	cover	Dennis Sichner	3:48
	God Rest the House		Jeff Lorber	4:29
	God Rest Ye / We Three	medley	Jason Stone & Liana Stone	5:02
	God Rest Ye Gentlemen / Carol of the Bells	instrumental	Bill Gabrys	2:47
	God Rest Ye Merry Genltemen		Nat King Cole	1:28
	God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman	cover and instrumental	David Harland	3:49
	God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman	cover	Smokey Robinson & The Miracles	3:10
	God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman	cover	Grateful Shred	5:23
	God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman	instrumental	The White Brothers	3:09
	God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman	cover	Jenny Evans	3:08
	God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman	cover	Eagles of Death Metal	1:49
	God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman		Bing Crosby & Frank Sinatra	2:34
	God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman		Bing Crosby	2:18
	God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman	cover	David Hughes & Chris Leslie	2:46
	God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman		The Miracles	?:??
	God rest ye Merry Gentlemen		Bing Crosby & Frank Sinatra	1:15
	God Rest ye Merry Gentlemen		CDB With Special Guests KPS Jam	3:52
	God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen		The Great British Barbershop Boys	2:35
	God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen	instrumental	James Morrison Big Band	4:05
	God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen	cover and instrumental	Boney James	4:35
	God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen		[unknown]	2:24
	God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen		Kitaro	3:51
	God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen		Jars of Clay	3:48
	God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen		Amanda Rheaume	1:54
	God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen		Susan Mazer & Dallas Smith	3:16
	God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen		[traditional]	3:37
	God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen		Bing Crosby	2:08
	God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen		Alela Diane & The Hackles	3:24
	God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen	cover	Michael McDonald	3:36
	God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen		Bing Crosby	2:01
	God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen		Bing Crosby	?:??
	God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen	cover	98°	4:36
	God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen		Bing Crosby	3:28
	God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen	cover	Brian Wilson	3:28
	God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen		Bruce Cockburn	2:54
	God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen		John St. John & Steve Quinzi	2:36
	God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen	instrumental	Caribbean Steel Drum Ensemble	1:40
	God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen		The John Alldis Choir, London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis	2:26
	God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen		Nat King Cole	1:28
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God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen (traditional, no arrangement credits here)

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