It Came Upon a Midnight Clear
        


                    C     F     C            
                It came upon a midnight clear

                      F        D7      G7
                That glorious song of old

                     C       F      C            
                From angels bending near the earth

                     F          G7       C  
                To touch their harps of gold

                       E7                   AM        
                "Peace on the earth,  good will to men

                       G       D7          G     
                From heaven's all gracious King;"

                     C        F      C            
                The world in solemn stillness lay,

                    F        G7     C
                To hear the angels sing


                Still through the cloven skies they come

                With peaceful wings unfurled,

                And still their heavenly music floats	

                O'er all the weary world

                Above its sad and lowly plains

                They bend on hovering wing;

                And ever o'er its Babel sounds

                The blessed angels sing.



                O ye, beneath life's crushing load

                Whose forms are bending low,

                Who toil along the climbing way

                With painful steps and slow

                Look now! for glad and golden hours

                Come swiftly on the wing;

                O rest beside the weary road

                And hear the angels sing


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                     It Came Upon A Midnight Clear


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IT CAME UPON THE MIDNIGHT CLEAR 
E.H.Sears, R.S.Willis. publ.1849
(Suggest Capo V) [Starting notes: g e]

It came upon the midnight clear [C F C]
That glorious song of old, [F D7 G7]
>From angels bending near the earth [C F C]
To touch their harps of gold. [F G7 C]
"Peace on the earth, good will to men, [E7 Am]
>From heav'ns all gracious King." [G D7 G G7]
The world in solemn stillness lay [C F C]
To hear the angels sing. [F G7 C]