{"id":8881,"date":"2022-04-01T16:07:52","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T16:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=8881"},"modified":"2025-08-20T15:14:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T15:14:00","slug":"it-came-upon-a-midnight-clear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/it-came-upon-a-midnight-clear\/","title":{"rendered":"It Came Upon a Midnight Clear"},"content":{"rendered":"
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 \r\n[Verse 1]\r\n   C     F     C\r\nIt came upon a midnight clear\r\n     F        D7      G7\r\nThat glorious song of old\r\n     C      F       C\r\nFrom angels bending near the earth\r\n   F           G7       C\r\nTo touch their harps of gold\r\n       E7                 Am\r\n\"Peace on the earth, good will to men\r\n     G            D7       G\r\nFrom heaven's all gracious King;\"\r\n    C        F      C\r\nThe world in solemn stillness lay,\r\n   F        G7     C\r\nTo hear the angels sing\r\n \r\n[Verse 2]\r\n      C           F      C\r\nStill through the cloven skies they come\r\n     F        D7      G7\r\nWith peaceful wings unfurled,\r\n    C           F        C\r\nAnd still their heavenly music floats\r\n     F       G7    C\r\nO'er all the weary world\r\n E7               Am\r\nAbove its sad and lowly plains\r\n     G       D7       G\r\nThey bend on hovering wing;\r\n    C    F        C\r\nAnd ever o'er its Babel sounds\r\n    F       G7     C\r\nThe blessed angels sing.\r\n \r\n[Verse 3]\r\n  C     F            C\r\nO ye, beneath life's crushing load\r\n      F         D7      G7\r\nWhose forms are bending low,\r\n    C     F        C\r\nWho toil along the climbing way\r\n     F       G7        C\r\nWith painful steps and slow\r\n     E7                Am\r\nLook now! for glad and golden hours\r\n     G       D7     G\r\nCome swiftly on the wing;\r\n  C      F        C\r\nO rest beside the weary road\r\n    F        G7     C\r\nAnd hear the angels sing\r\n \r\n[Verse 4]\r\n    C        F        C\r\nFor lo!  The days are hastening on\r\n   F        D7      G7\r\nby prophets seen of old\r\n     C        F    C\r\nWhen with the ever-circling years\r\n      F        G7       C\r\nshall come the time foretold\r\n     E7               Am\r\nWhen peace shall over all the earth\r\n    G<\/span>       D7<\/span>        G<\/span>\r\nits ancient splendors fling\r\n    C<\/span>        F<\/span>           C<\/span>\r\nAnd the whole world send back the song\r\n      F<\/span>       G7<\/span>     C<\/span>\r\nwhich now the angels sing!<\/span><\/pre>\n
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(G) WORDS -1849 MUSIC-1850 [Verse 1] 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 … CLICK TO VIEW SONGIt Came Upon a Midnight Clear<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,116,117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas","category-live-baritone","category-live-piano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}