It Came Upon the Midnight Clear (Chromatic Duet) Harmonica Tabs

It Came Upon the Midnight Clear (Chromatic Duet)
Music by Richard Storrs Willis
Words by Edward Hamilton Sears
Key of Bb Major

1st harp Range: D4 to D5 2nd harp Range: D3 to C4

Tab notations: none = blow – = draw * = button in
__ = hold -(.3.4)* = draw holes .3 & .4 with button in
__-.1 = continuously held note from previous line
. = on lower register (first 4 on 16 hole, or Tenor C)
-4*_-3* = slur; slide smoothly from one note to next

-2 -5_ -3 -4*_-3* 3 -2_ 3 -2_
1. It came up-on_____ the mid – night clear,
2. Still through the clo___-ven skies they come,
3. Yet with the woes__ of sin and strife,
4. And ye, be-neath__ life’s crush-ing load,
5. For lo! The days___ are hast-ening on
-.2_______ .3__________ -.1_ -2 -.1___

-2 3_-3 -3* -3*_-4* -5 5________________
1. That glo – rious song__ of old,_____________
2. With peac -ful wings__ un – furled,__________
3. The world has suf___- fered long____________
4. Whose forms are bend__ –ing low,____________
5. By pro – phet bards_ fore – told,__________
__-.1 .3________ -(.3.4)*___ -(.2.3)_ -.3* .4_

-2 -5_ -3 -4*_-3* 3 -2_ 3 -2_
1. From an – gels bend__-ing near the earth,
2. And still their heav__-en – ly music floats,
3. Be – neath the an____–gel-strain have rolled ,
4. Why toil a_ – long__ the clim – bing way,
5. When with the ev____ –er circl- ing years,
-.2_______ .3________ -.1_ -.1* -.1_____

-2 3_ 3 -3_3 -2 -3*____
1. To touch their harps of gold:__
2. O’er all the wea – ry world;_
3. Two thou -sand years of wrong;_
4. With wear –ry steps and slow__
5. Comes round the Age of Gold,_
__-.1 .3_________ -(.2.3).4 -1____

-5 -5_ -1 -1_2 -2* 3_ -3 -3*_
1. ‘Peace on_ the earth, good-will to men,
2. A__– bove_ its sad and lone-ly plains,
3. And man,_ at war with man, hears not,
4. Look up!__ For glad and gol – den hours,
5. When peace shall o – ver all the earth,
-.2*_____ -.3_______ .3_ -.2* .3_

-5 -4*_-3* -3 3_-3 3 -2___________
1. From heav’n’s all gra_- cious King!________
2. They bend___ on hov_- ering wing,________
3. The love___- song which they bring._______
4. Come swift__– ly on__ the wing;________
5. Its an_____-cient splen-dors fling,_______
-.3* .4___________ -.3*.4-.3* -(.2.3)-.3*.4

-2 -5_ -3 -4*_-3* 3 -2_ 3 -2_
1. The world in sol____-emn still-ness lay,
2. And ev___-er o’er___ its Ba__- bel sounds,
3. O hush_ the noise,_ ye men_ of strife,
4. O rest_ be – side___ the wear-y road,
5. And the_ whole world_ give back_ the song,
-.2______ .3__________ -.1_-.1* -.1_____

-2 3__ 3 -3__3 -2 -3*____
1. To hear the an______-gels sing.__
2. The bles-sed an______-gels sing.__
3. And hear the an______-gels sing.__
4. And hear the an______-gels sing.__
5. Which now the an______-gels sing.__
__-.1 .3______ -.3_-.3* .4 -1_____