What Sweeter Music chords by John Rutter

Chords with lyrics

• Capo on 2nd

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

WHAT SWEETER MUSIC


|E MajorE    |F#m7/E  B/E |E MajorE   |F#m7/E  B/E    |
                     What sweeter
E MajorE  B/E     A augmentedA   Amaj7Amaj7 A major 6A6
mu sic can we bring
    E/G#   F# minorF#m   BB
Than a carol,  for to sing
  B/A   E/G#   A augmentedA    C# minorC#m
The birth of this, our Heavely King,
     F#m7F#m7       BB
Awake the voice! Awake the string!

       F#m7/B   E/B  F#m7/B
Dark and dull night, fly hence a way
               Dmaj7Dmaj7
And give to honour to this da-a-a-a-ay
       C#m7C#m7      F#F#
That sees De cember turn to May.
       D MajorD  C#m7C#m7     BB
That sees De cem ber turn to May.


  F#m7/B  E MajorE  B/E      A augmentedA   Amaj7Amaj7 A major 6A6
Why does the chil ling winter's morn
B/A      E/G#  F# minorF#m    Bsus4Bsus4 BB
Smile, like a field beset with corn?
  B/A     E/G#  A augmentedA   C# minorC#m
Or smell like a meadow newly shorn
       F#m7F#m7       BB
Thus, on the sudden? Come and see
        F#m7/B        BB
The cause, why things thus fragrant be.
     F#m7/B
Tis he is born, whose quickening birth
        C#m7C#m7   A/C#A/C#  D MajorD
Gives life and lustre,  public mirth.
      F# minorF#m  G# minorG#m A augmentedA  BB
To heaven, and  the under earth.


  F#m7/B  E MajorE  A augmentedA   E MajorE    A augmentedA
We see him co-ome and know him ours
       E/G# G#m7G#m7  F#m7F#m7  BB
Who, with his sun  shine and his showers
BB  B/A   E/G# A augmentedA      C# minorC#m
Turns all the pat ient brown to flowers
C#m7C#m7   BB  A augmentedA   F#m7F#m7      BB
Turns all the patient   brown to flowers
      F#m7/B  C#m7C#m7   BB
The darling of the  world is come
      F#m7/B  B6B6  F#m7/B
And fit it is, we  find a room
  B6B6   Dmaj7Dmaj7 D6D6   C# minorC#m   D MajorD
To welcome him,   to welcome him.
     A/C#A/C#   D MajorD    A augmentedA   F# minorF#m     G#G#
The nobler part of all the house here is the heart.

   A#m7/D#   G#G#  C#C#  G#G#   C#C#
Which we will  give him; and bequeath
   G#/C  Cm7Cm7   C#C#     D#D#
This hol  ly  and this ivy wreath
A#m7A#m7   BB  E MajorE  C#m7C#m7   G# minorG#m
To do him hon our whose our King
F#6F#6 E MajorE    C#m7C#m7 B/D#B/D#   BB  Bsus4Bsus4 BB
And Lord of all  is  revelling.


|E MajorE    |Fm#7/E  B/E
         What sweeter
 E MajorE  F#m7/E E MajorE   A augmentedA
 mu  sic   can we bring
    E MajorE        B/E
Then a carol for us to sing
  E/G#   C#m7C#m7   A/D   A/EA/E C#m7C#m7 A augmentedA
The birth of this our heaven ly  KIng
  E MajorE  EMaj7Emaj7 E/A B/A  C#m7C#m7 Dmaj7Dmaj7 D6D6 D MajorD
The birth of  this    our  hea  venly

|E MajorE    |F#m7/E  B/E |E MajorE
King.