Hark! The carols that you sing,
May just have a different ring.

The words to "Joy To the World" as I know them are:

Joy to the earth, the Savious reigns,
Let men their songs employ!
While fields and floods, rocks, hills, and plains
Repeat the sounding joy!
Repeat the sounding joy!
Repeat, repeat, the sounding joy!

However, what was printed in my church bulliten this Christmas Eve was:

Let all their songs employ

Later on in the service, we sang "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing", but instead of singing:

Hail the heav'n born Prince of Peace!
Hail the Son of righteousness!
Light and life to all he brings, Ris'n with healing in his wings.
Mild he lays his glory by! Born that man no more may die!
Born to raise the sons of Earth! Born to give them second birth!

Hark! The herald angels sing,
"Glory to the newborn King!"

the lyrics had been changed to:

Mild he lays his glory by! Born that we no more may die!
Born to raise each child of earth! Born to give us second birth!

I appreciate the thought, but as a member of the half of society that they are trying not to offend through the use of gender neutral language, I don't consider the changes necessary. In fact, I would prefer the lyrics not be altered.

I might be in the minority here, but at no time in my life did I ever think to myself, "Sure ... 'God rest ye merry gentlemen' ... but what are we ladies supposed to do? Continue to dismay?".

With new words,
Old tunes proclaim:
Traditions don't just stay the same.
Hark! The carols that you sing
May show some signs of tinkering.