O Come All Ye Faithful "Adeste Fideles" - Christmas Guitar

http://www.jamguitar.com Learn this Great Christmas Guitar Song on Guitar and many others at jamguitar.com "Adeste Fideles" or "O Come All Ye Faithful" is a Christmas carol commonly attributed to John Francis Wade in approximately 1743. Wade was a Catholic layman and a music teacher, who fled England after the Jacobite rebellion of 1745. He went to the English College, Douai which was a refuge for British Catholics after the abdication of James II in 1688. The words may therefore be attributed to Wade or to others, but certainly originate amongst exiled Jacobite Roman Catholics of the 1740s.
First measures of Adeste Fideles.
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First measures of Adeste Fideles.

The earliest existing manuscript shows both words and tune. It was published in the 1760 edition of Evening Offices of the Church. John Francis Wade included it in his own publication of Cantus Diversi (1751). It also appeared in Samuel Webbe's An Essay on the Church Plain Chant (1782).

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[andristic]

without a doubt, that was terrible

[Biniou7]

Written by a Jacobite/Jacobites, I mean.

[Puritan1985]

How is that Jacobite music? IIRC that song is about jesus...

[Biniou7]

Great. Can't go wrong with Jacobite music.

[tennispro7428]

Thats good!