Cape Breton Chorale, 2020 Christmas Card Video

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to friends and family in Cape Breton and beyond, and to our audience members at home and abroad.

Ryan Billington, Director
Paula Jane Francis, Piano 

I'll Be Home for Christmas - Walter Kent, Kim Gannon, arranged by Steve Zegree

The Gift - Lyrics by Tony Vincent Isaacs, arranged by Bob Chilcott

Candlelight Carol - John Rutter

Recorded December 10, 2020, New Waterford, Nova Scotia, Canada.

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We give thanks to:
St. Margeurite Bourgeoys Parish, Sydney 
Fr. Bill Burke
Calvin United Church, New Waterford
Rev. Duncan Roach 
Shaun Dieltgens
Richard MacAulay
Adam Young 

I’ll Be Home for Christmas
Lyrics James Gannon & Music Walter Kent

I'll be home for Christmas;
You can count on me.
Please have snow and mistletoe
And presents on the tree.

Christmas Eve will find me
Where the love-light gleams.
I'll be home for Christmas
If only in my dreams.

The Gift
Bob Chilcott 

A gift we deliver, a gift we receive...

In the gift we deliver, in the gift we receive,
is the living spirit Mary did conceive,
the royal gift of love incandescent flame
Is given to all mankind in His name.

Joy, joy, it is our true delight
To give and receive on this wondrous night.
A boy child to Mary is born
And His light will shine on beyond the dawn.

Candlelight Carol 
John Rutter 

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