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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
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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
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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,
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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,
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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,_
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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,
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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,
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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,
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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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