Biography:
John Rutter (born September 24, 1945) is an English composer, choral conductor, editor, arranger and record producer.
Born in London, he was educated at Highgate School, where a fellow pupil was John Tavener. He then studied music at Clare College, Cambridge, where he was organ scholar and then director of music from 1975 to 1979. In 1981 he founded his own choir, the Cambridge Singers, which he conducts and with which he has made many recordings of sacred choral repertoire (including his own works)
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[Verse 1]
G Em C D
How do you capture the wind on the water?
G Em C D
How do you count all the stars in the sky?
Bm Em Am
How do you measure the love of a mother
Am C D G
Or how can you write down a baby's first cry?
[Chorus]
C Em D G
Candlelight, angel light, firelight and star-glow
C G Em D
Shine on his cradle till breaking of dawn
C Em Am G
Gloria, Gloria, in excelsis Deo
G Em D G
Angels are singing; the Christ child is born
[Verse 2]
G Em C D
Shepherds and wise men will kneel and adore him
G Em C D
Seraphim round him their vigil will keep
Bm Em Am
Nations proclaim him their Lord and their Saviour
Am C D G
But Mary will hold him and sing him to sleep
[Chorus]
C Em D G
Candlelight, angel light, firelight and star-glow
C G Em D
Shine on his cradle till breaking of dawn
C Em Am G
Gloria, Gloria, in excelsis Deo
G Em D G
Angels are singing; the Christ child is born
[Verse 3]
G Em C D
Find him at Bethlehem laid in a manger
G Em C D
Christ our Redeemer asleep in the hay
Bm Em Am
Godhead incarnate and hope of salvation
Am C D G
A child with his mother that first Christmas Day
[Chorus]
C Em D G
Candlelight, angel light, firelight and star-glow
C G Em D
Shine on his cradle till breaking of dawn
C Em Am G
Gloria, Gloria, in excelsis Deo
G Em D G
Angels are singing; the Christ child is born
G Em C D
How do you capture the wind on the water?
G Em C D
How do you count all the stars in the sky?
Bm Em Am
How do you measure the love of a mother
Am C D G
Or how can you write down a baby's first cry?
[Chorus]
C Em D G
Candlelight, angel light, firelight and star-glow
C G Em D
Shine on his cradle till breaking of dawn
C Em Am G
Gloria, Gloria, in excelsis Deo
G Em D G
Angels are singing; the Christ child is born
[Verse 2]
G Em C D
Shepherds and wise men will kneel and adore him
G Em C D
Seraphim round him their vigil will keep
Bm Em Am
Nations proclaim him their Lord and their Saviour
Am C D G
But Mary will hold him and sing him to sleep
[Chorus]
C Em D G
Candlelight, angel light, firelight and star-glow
C G Em D
Shine on his cradle till breaking of dawn
C Em Am G
Gloria, Gloria, in excelsis Deo
G Em D G
Angels are singing; the Christ child is born
[Verse 3]
G Em C D
Find him at Bethlehem laid in a manger
G Em C D
Christ our Redeemer asleep in the hay
Bm Em Am
Godhead incarnate and hope of salvation
Am C D G
A child with his mother that first Christmas Day
[Chorus]
C Em D G
Candlelight, angel light, firelight and star-glow
C G Em D
Shine on his cradle till breaking of dawn
C Em Am G
Gloria, Gloria, in excelsis Deo
G Em D G
Angels are singing; the Christ child is born
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