Mary Chapin Carpenter - Candlelight Carol Lyrics

Mary Chapin Carpenter Lyrics

"Candlelight Carol"

How do you capture
The wind on the water?
How do you count all the stars in the sky?
How can you measure
The love of a mother
Or how can you write down
A baby's first cry?

Candlelight, angel light
Firelight and star glow
Shine on his cradle till breaking of dawn
Gloria, Gloria in excelsis Deo!
Angels are singing
The Christ child is born

Shepherds and wise men
Will kneel and adore him
Seraphim round him their vigil will keep
Nations proclaim him
Their Lord and their Saviour
But Mary will hold him
And sing him to sleep

Candlelight, angel light
Firelight and star glow
Shine on his cradle till breaking of dawn
Gloria, Gloria in excelsis Deo!
Angels are singing
The Christ child is born

Find him at Bethlehem laid in a manger
Christ our Redeemer asleep in the hay
Godhead incarnate and hope of salvation
A child with his mother
That first Christmas Day

Candlelight, angel light
Firelight and star glow
Shine on his cradle till breaking of dawn
Gloria, Gloria in excelsis Deo!
Angels are singing
The Christ child is born
Angels are singing
The Christ child is born

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Writer(s): John Rutter

album: "Come Darkness, Come Light: Twelve Songs Of Christmas" (2008)

Mary Chapin Carpenter - Come Darkness, Come Light: Twelve Songs Of Christmas album cover

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Come Darkness, Come Light

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Candlelight Carol

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Bells Are Ringing

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"Candlelight Carol" lyrics

Mary Chapin Carpenter Lyrics