It Came Upon the Midnight Clear (Double Bass Accompaniment)

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

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+: 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 (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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