It Came Upon The Midnight Clear chords by Michael Martin Murphey
Verse 1
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It came
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upon a midnight clear
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That glorious song of old
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From angels bending near the earth
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To touch their harps of gold
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Peace on the earth, goodwill to men,
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from heaven's all -gracious King.
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The world in solemn stillness lay,
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to hear the angels sing.
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Still through the cloven skies they come,
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with peaceful wings unfurled.
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And still their heavenly music floats
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O 'er all the weary world
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Above the sand and lowly plain
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They bend on hovering wing
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And ever over its babble sounds
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The blessed angels sing
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Yet with the woes of sin and strife,
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the world has suffered long.
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Beneath the heavenly hymn
have rolled
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two thousand years of wrong.
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And warring humankind
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hears not the tidings which they bring.
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Oh, hush the noise and cease your strife,
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And hear the angels sing.
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For, the days are hastening on
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By prophets seen of old,
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When with the ever -circling years
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Shall come the time foretold,
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When peace shall over all the earth
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its ancient splendors fling
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And all the world give back the song
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which now the angels sing
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It came upon a midnight clear
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It Came Upon The Midnight Clear
Michael Martin Murphey
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