[code] It Came Upon the Midnight Clear (Diatonic Solo) Music by Richard Storrs Willis Words by Edward Hamilton Sears Key of Bb Major Range: D4 to D5
Tab notations: none = blow - = draw ’ = half step bend ” = full step bend 3”’ = full step and a half bend __ = hold (2x4) = blow 2&4 while blocking 3 = slur; slide smoothly from one note to next
3 5_ -3 -4_4 -3” 3_ -3” 3_ 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
3 -3”_-3 4 4_-4 5 -4____ 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,_
3 5_ -3 -4_4 -3” 3_ -3” 3_ 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, 3 -3”_ -3” 3_-3” 3 4____ 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_ 2 2_-2’ -3”’ -3”_ -3 (2x4)_ 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_4 -3 -3”_-3 -3” 3____ 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,
3 5_ -3 -4_4 -3” 3_ -3” 3_ 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,
3 -3”_ -3” -3_-3” 3 4___ 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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