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Song Name: It Came Upon the Midnight Clear (Chromatic Duet) By: Richard Storrs Willis & Edward Hamilton Sears
Posted By: EarthDogHarpin Difficulty: Beginner
Key: Bb Genre: Christmas
Harp Type: Chromatic Audio: It Came Upon the Midnight Clear (Chromatic Duet)
Created: 2012-12-14 10:14:14 Modified: 2012-12-14 10:14:14
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It Came Upon the Midnight Clear (Chromatic Duet)
Music by Richard Storrs Willis
Words by Edward Hamilton Sears
Key of Bb Major   

1st harp Range: D4 to D5   2nd harp Range: D3 to C4

Tab notations:  none = blow    - = draw    * = button in
__ = hold    -(.3.4)* = draw holes .3 & .4 with button in
__-.1 = continuously held note from previous line
. = on lower register (first 4 on 16 hole, or Tenor C)
-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__________   -.1_  -2    -.1___

   -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,__________
 __-.1   .3________ -(.3.4)*___  -(.2.3)_ -.3* .4_

   -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________ -.1_   -.1*  -.1_____

   -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,_
 __-.1   .3_________ -(.2.3).4 -1____

    -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,
         -.2*_____ -.3_______ .3_  -.2* .3_

   -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,_______
   -.3* .4___________ -.3*.4-.3*  -(.2.3)-.3*.4

   -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__________ -.1_-.1* -.1_____

    -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.__
 __-.1   .3______ -.3_-.3* .4   -1_____


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