I'm sure all you FReepers will figure it out so don't post the answer right away and spoil it for others - Merry Christmas!
I'm sure all you FReepers will figure it out so don't post the answer right away and spoil it for others - Merry Christmas!
I cheated....
God Rest You Merry Gentleman?
Oops. Sorry. I didn’t read the part to not respond quickly. Sorry to be a spoiler.
Good King Wenceslas
“Satan Claus is Coming to Town”
“God rest ye merry Gentlemen.”
“God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen”
God rest ye merry gentlemen.
Let nothing you dismay,
For Jesus Christ was born on Christmas Day,
To save us all from Satan’s pow’r
When we had gone astray.
It took me about 2 seconds to recall the actual line and another 2-3 seconds to remember the song it came from.
Speaking of Christmas carols,here’s a possible brain teaser: What famous Christmas carol was composed by a Jewish convert to Christianity?
Quite a few if your dyslexic... and sent a holiday gift wish letter to Satan at the North Ploe. :)
Hey, I just heard this song earlier today. What are the odds of that ? : )
God rest ye merry, gentlemen; let nothing you dismay.
Remember Christ our Savior was born on Christmas Day.
To save us all from satan’s power when we were gone astray.
Oooohh, tidings of comfort and joy!
Another stumper. What Christmas son did Bob Hope sing and in what movie?
I knew it right off.
You need to warn people about all the annoying pop ups on that site.
grymg
Also: “This Little Babe.”
This little babe
So few days old
Has come to rifle Satan’s fold
All Hell doth at
His presence quake
Though he himself for cold do shake.
But in this deep unwanted wise
The gates of Hell he will surprise.
Tidings of Comfort and Joy. “To save us all from Satan’s power when we had gone astray.”
Here's the hard answer:
"Gabriel's message does away
Satan's curse and Satan's sway,
out of darkness brings our Day:
Refrain:
So, behold,
all the gates of heaven unfold.
He that comes despised shall reign;
he that cannot die, be slain;
death by death its death shall gain:
Weakness shall the strong confound;
by the hands, in grave clothes wound,
Adam's chains shall be unbound.
By the sword that was his own,
by that sword, and that alone,
shall Goliath be o'erthrown:
Art by art shall be assailed;
to the cross shall Life be nailed;
from the grave shall hope be hailed:"
Gabriel's Message - Neal's translation
in the original Latin, in a chant/organum setting
Piae Cantiones was translated largely by John Mason Neal, the English hymn composer, from a Finnish book of hymns and school songs - written in Latin and Finnish. Although the book is dated 1582, it was the work of an antiquary (they had them then too) and the words and music are essentially medieval.
The well known carols out of it include "Christ was born on Christmas Day" (Resonet in laudibus), "Good Christian men, rejoice" (In dulci jubilo), "Good King Wenceslas" (new words to a spring carol), "Let the Boys' Cheerful Noise" (Personent hodie), "Of the Father's Love Begotten", "Unto Us a Boy is Born", and "Gaudete - Christus est Natus" (covered by Steeleye Span, of all things).
And before you say "nobody knows this one," it's in the Episcopal hymnal. No. 270. (the Episcopalians may be a bunch of heretics, but their music is absolutely first class).