Christmas song, U.S.A.
“It Came Upon the Midnight Clear” is a Christmas song written by Edmund Sears, a pastor in Wayland, Massachusetts.
Sears’ lyrics are most commonly set to the melody of “Carol”, composed by Richard Storrs Willis.
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- Karaoke Video with Lyrics
- Lyrics
- Free karaoke MP3 download
- Commercial License for It Came Upon the Midnight Clear (karaoke)
- It Came Upon the Midnight Clear Sheet Music
Karaoke Video with Lyrics
Lyrics
1. It came upon the midnight clear,
That glorious song of old,
From angels bending near the earth,
To touch their harps of gold:
“Peace on the earth, goodwill to men,
From heaven’s all-gracious King.”
The world in solemn stillness lay,
To hear the angels sing.
2. 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 blessèd angels sing.
3. Yet with the woes of sin and strife
The world hath suffered long;
Beneath the angel-strain have rolled
Two thousand years of wrong;
And man, at war with man, hears not
The love song which they bring:
O hush the noise, ye men of strife,
And hear the angels sing.
4. For lo!, the days are hastening on,
By prophet bards foretold,
When with the ever-circling years
Comes round the age of gold
When peace shall over all the earth
Its ancient splendors fling,
And the whole world give back the song
Which now the angels sing.
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“It Came Upon the Midnight Clear” (instrumental, 4:12 – 6/8 – 48 bpm)
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Singing Christmas with our Kids, Vol.1
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It Came Upon the Midnight Clear Sheet Music
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