What sweeter music - Earwaker, John

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◈ Genre → Carols ♬ Voicing → SATB ¶ Language → English

Parts 4

Instruments A cappella and organ versions

Pages 6

CPDL # 15692

Editor John Kilpatrick

Posted 2007-12-20

License Personal

¶Lyrics / Text

What sweeter music can we bring Than a carol for to sing the birth of this our heav'nly King? ''Lulla, lulla, lulla, lullay.'' What sweeter music can we bring Than a carol for to sing the birth of this our heav'nly King? ''Sing No-el, No-el, Sing No-el!'' Dark and dull night, fly hence away, And give the honour to this day That sees December turn'd to May. If we may ask the reason say: The why and wherefore all things here Seem like the Springtime of the year? We see him come, and know him ours, Who with his sunshine and his showers Turns all the patient ground to flowers. ''Gloria in excelsis Deo!'' The darling of the world is come, And fit it is to find a room To welcome him. The nobler part Of all the house here is the heart Which we will give him and bequeath This holly and this ivy wreath To do him honour who's our King And Lord of all this revelling. ''Gloria in excelsis Deo!'' ''Words from Robert Herrick ''