and they are singing again tonight. Indeed, that is all I can say about them this evening, and give you a link to the song they loved to repeat, "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen", as sung by the Southern Raised Gospel and Blue Grass Band.
James Sherrill got hold of the popular story "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens, published about ten years earlier, and they were listening to him read a section every night. They came to the part about Scrooge chasing off the caroler who was singing "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen", and they all agreed they must stop and sing it before finishing the story. We now sing the same Christmas song, when it is about two hundred years old.
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