It Came Upon the Midnight Clear (Diatonic Solo)

by Edward Hamilton Sears , Richard Storrs Willis

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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.