What Sweeter Music chords by John Rutter

• Capo on 2nd

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

WHAT SWEETER MUSIC


|E        |F#m7/E   B/E |E      |F#m7/E   B/E        |
                                          What sweeter
E   B/E         A      Amaj7  A6
mu  sic can we bring
       E/G#     F#m     B
Than a carol,   for to  sing
    B/A      E/G#      A       C#m
The birth of this, our Heavely King,
          F#m7             B
Awake the voice! Awake the string!

              F#m7/B     E/B    F#m7/B
Dark and dull night, fly hence a way
                              Dmaj7
And give to honour to this da-a-a-a-ay
             C#m7           F#
That sees De cember turn to May.
             D    C#m7         B
That sees De cem  ber turn to May.



   F#m7/B    E    B/E            A     Amaj7 A6
Why does the chil ling winter's morn
B/A           E/G#    F#m       Bsus4  B
Smile, like a field beset with corn?
   B/A          E/G#    A     C#m
Or smell like a meadow  newly shorn
             F#m7             B
Thus, on the sudden? Come and see
               F#m7/B               B
The cause, why things thus fragrant be.
          F#m7/B
Tis he is born, whose quickening birth
               C#m7      A/C#   D
Gives life and lustre,   public mirth.
           F#m   G#m  A    B
To heaven, and   the under earth.


   F#m7/B   E   A      E        A
We see him  co-ome and know him ours
              E/G#  G#m7   F#m7    B
Who, with his sun   shine  and his showers
B    B/A     E/G#  A           C#m
Turns all the pat ient brown to flowers
C#m7      B   A      F#m7           B
Turns all the patient      brown to flowers
            F#m7/B   C#m7     B
The darling of the   world is come
           F#m7/B   B6    F#m7/B
And fit it is, we   find a room
   B6     Dmaj7  D6     C#m     D
To welcome him,      to welcome him.
          A/C#     D       A     F#m         G#
The nobler part of all the house here is the heart.


     A#m7/D#     G#    C#   G#      C#
Which we will    give  him; and bequeath
     G#/C   Cm7     C#         D#
This hol    ly   and this ivy wreath
A#m7      B    E   C#m7      G#m
To do him hon  our whose our King
F#6  E       C#m7  B/D#      B   Bsus4 B
And  Lord of all   is   revelling.


|E       |Fm#7/E   B/E
                  What sweeter
 E    F#m7/E  E      A
 mu   sic     can we bring
       E                B/E
Then a carol for us to sing
    E/G#     C#m7     A/D     A/E  C#m7  A
The birth of this our heaven  ly   KIng
    E    Emaj7 E/A  B/A   C#m7  Dmaj7 D6  D
The birth of   this       our   hea   venly

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