‘God rest you merry gentlemen’ is one of the earliest carols we still sing today (16th/17th century). Charles Dickens included it in his book ‘The Christmas Carol’. The infamous Scrooge was not happy to hear it being sung… “At the first sound of ‘God bless you, merry gentlemen! May nothing you dismay!’, Scrooge seized the ruler with such energy of action that the singer fled in terror, leaving the keyhole to the fog and even more congenial frost.” Of course the story ends with a complete change