God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen English Carol
Vocals arrangement by Farya Faraji. I usually don t arrange very well known pieces as this one has been done to death by far better musicians than I, but the fresh snowy forest looked beautiful and I just needed an excuse to film a clip before the snow melted off the trees, and this was the only Christmasrelated song I knew off the top of my head so I threw this together quickly in a day while the forest still had that picturesque white look. For what it s worth, the recent renditions of this traditional English Carol have been very modernised and bombastic, so this can at least provide an example of a more traditional sound representative of the 1800 s to 1900 s when this carol became popular. There are many different versions of this song s lyrics so I mixed different lyrics from the different printed versions from the the 1700 s to today. Lyrics: God rest you merry, gentlemen Let nothing you dismay For Jesus Christ, our Saviour Was born upon this day, To
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