Key: G major
Verse 1
G
D
G
It came upon the midnight gale
D
G
C
G
that glorious summer morn,
D
G
Em
C
G
From angels bending near the earth
D
G
to touch their harps of gold,
Em
G
Peace on the earth,
Em
D
goodwill to men from heav
G
D
'n's all -gracious King,
G
Em
G
The world in silent stillness
D
G
D
G
came to hear the angels sing.
G
D
G
C
G
they come with peaceful wings un furled,
D
G
C
And still their heavenly music
Em
C
Em
Above its sad and lowly plains
G
D
they bend on hoaring wing,
G
Abdim
G
And evermore in its meable sounds
the blessed angels sing.
G
C
G
the world has suffered long,
D
G
C
Beneath the angels' stake
G
D
G
hath grown two thousand years of wrong,
D
G
D
is not the love song which they bring.
G
D
O hush the noisy men of strife,
G
D
G
and hear the angels sing.
And he beneath the splashing
D
G
C
G
low goose -bones of ember -blue,
D
G
Em
C
G
Who toiled along the gliding way
with painful stress and snow,
G
D
Come swiftly on the way,
Bb
G
O rest beside the weary road,
D
G
And hear the angels sing.
D
G
D
For lo, the days are hastening on
D
G
When with the ever -sun he veers
Contra the age of gold,
Em
G
When peace shall over all the earth
G
D
And the whole world send back the song
G
D
which now the angels sing.
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsG D C Em Abdim...
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