It Came Upon the Midnight Clear (Double Bass Accompaniment) Harmonica Tabs

It Came Upon the Midnight Clear (Double Bass Accompaniment)
Music by Richard Storrs Willis
Words by Edward Hamilton Sears
Key of Bb Major Range: C2 to Bb2
For EITHER a Hohner 265 OR a Suzuki SDB-29 Double Bass Harmonica.

The Double Bass Harmonica is a blow only instrument.
L = lower harp u = upper harp ___ – hold

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
u11_______ u7__________ u11_______

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,_
u7_________ L6_________ L9__

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,
u11_______ u7______ u11________

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,
u7_________ L9_______ u11__

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,
L7_________ L10_______

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,
L6___________ L6_________ L9_____

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,
u11______ u7________ u11______

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._
u7______ L9_______ u11___