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.