It Came Upon A Midnight Clear (Snowbird)

IT CAME UPON A MIDNIGHT CLEAR

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Meter: 8 6 8 6
Text: Edmund Hamilton Sears, 1810-1876, alt.
Music: Fr. J. Roel Lungay, 1996
Performed by Elvis Somosot
Cover: CTTO

1a/1b
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, good will to men,
From heav'n's all gracious King."
The world in solemn stillness lay
To hear the angels sing.

(Interlude)

2a/2b
Still through the cloven skies they come
With peaceful wings unfurled,
And still their heav'enly music floats
O'er all the weary world; Above its sad and lowly plains
They bend on hov'ring wing.
And ever o'er its Babel sounds
The blessed angels sing.

(Interlude)

3a/3b
Yet with the woes of sin and strife
The world has suffered long;
Beneath the heav'ny hymn have rolled
Two thousand years of wrong;
And warring humankind hears not
The tidings which they bring:
O hush the noise and cease your strife,
And hear the angels sing.

(Interlude)

4a/4b
For lo! the days are hast'ning on,
By prophets seen of old,
When, with the ever-circling years,
Shall come the time foretold;
When peace shall over all the earth
Its ancient splendors fling,
And all the world give back the song
Which now the angels sing.

Text: Edmund Hamilton Sears, 1810-1876, alt. Public Domain
Music: WHEN THE SNOWBORD SINGS; Fr. J. Roel Lungay, © 1996

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