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It Came Upon the Midnight Clear (Double Bass Accompaniment)
Music by Richard Storrs Willis
Words by Edward Hamilton Sears
Key of Bb Major Range: C2 to Bb2
For EITHER a Hohner 265 OR a Suzuki SDB-29 Double Bass Harmonica.
The Double Bass Harmonica is a blow only instrument.
L = lower harp u = upper harp ___ - hold
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
u11_______ u7__________ u11_______
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,_
u7_________ L6_________ L9__
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,
u11_______ u7______ u11________
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,
u7_________ L9_______ u11__
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,
L7_________ L10_______
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,
L6___________ L6_________ L9_____
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,
u11______ u7________ u11______
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._
u7______ L9_______ u11___
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