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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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