[code] It Came Upon the Midnight Clear (Chromatic Solo) Music by Richard Storrs Willis Words by Edward Hamilton Sears Key of Bb Major Range: D4 to D5
Tab notations: none = blow - = draw * = button in __ = hold -4*_-3* = slur; slide smoothly from one note to next
-2 -5_ -3 -4*_-3* 3 -2_ 3 -2_ 1. It came up-on_____ the mid - night clear, 2. Still through the clo___-ven skies they come, 3. Yet with the woes__ of sin and strife, 4. And ye, be-neath__ life’s crush-ing load, 5. For lo! The days___ are hast-ening on
-2 3_-3 -3* -3*_-4* -5 5____ 1. That glo - rious song__ of old,_ 2. With peac -ful wings__ un - furled, 3. The world has suf___- fered long 4. Whose forms are bend__ –ing low, 5. By pro – phet bards_ fore - told,
-2 -5_ -3 -4*_-3* 3 -2_ 3 -2_ 1. From an – gels bend__-ing near the earth, 2. And still their heav__-en – ly music floats, 3. Be – neath the an____–gel-strain have rolled , 4. Why toil a_ - long__ the clim – bing way, 5. When with the ev____ –er circl- ing years,
-2 3_ 3 -3_3 -2 -3*____ 1. To touch their harps of gold:__ 2. O’er all the wea – ry world;_ 3. Two thou -sand years of wrong;_ 4. With wear –ry steps and slow__ 5. Comes round the Age of Gold,_
-5 -5_ -1 -1_2 -2* 3_ -3 -3*_ 1. ‘Peace on_ the earth, good-will to men, 2. A – bove_ its sad and lone-ly plains, 3. And man,_ at war with man, hears not, 4. Look up!__ For glad and gol – den hours, 5. When peace shall o - ver all the earth, -5 -4*_-3* -3 3_-3 3 -2___ 1. From heav’n’s all gra_- cious King! 2. They bend___ on hov_- ering wing, 3. The love___- song which they bring. 4. Come swift__– ly on__ the wing; 5. Its an_____-cient splen-dors fling,
-2 -5_ -3 -4*_-3* 3 -2_ 3 -2_ 1. The world in sol____-emn still-ness lay, 2. And ev___-er o’er___ its Ba__- bel sounds, 3. O hush_ the noise,_ ye men_ of strife, 4. O rest_ be – side___ the wear-y road, 5. And the_ whole world_ give back_ the song,
-2 3_ 3 -3_3 -2 -3*____ 1. To hear the an__-gels sing.__ 2. The bles-sed an__-gels sing.__ 3. And hear the an__-gels sing.__ 4. And hear the an__-gels sing.__ 5. Which now the an_-gels sing.__
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