It Came Upon the Midnight Clear (Chromatic Solo)

by Richard Storrs Willis & Edward Hamilton Sears · posted by EarthDogHarpin

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How to read this tab — notation key

+: Blow note
−: Draw note
b or ': Half-step bend
bb or '': Two half-step bend
bbb or ''': Three half-step bend
(###): Chord — relevant hole numbers in parentheses
< or *: Push the button in (chromatic harmonica)

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Tab

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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

   -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_-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,

   -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_    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,_

    -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,

   -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,

   -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_   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.__

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