It Came Upon a Midnight Clear-Christmas Friends

[ti:It Came Upon a Midnight Clear] [ar:Christmas Friends] [al:Holy Christmas Chorus Favorites] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]It Came Upon a Midnight Clear - Christmas Friends [00:00.51]It came upon the midnight clear [00:05.09] [00:05.63]That glorious song of old [00:09.01] [00:10.88]From angels bending near the Earth [00:15.32] [00:16.03]To touch their harps of gold [00:19.15] [00:20.90]Peace on the Earth goodwill to men [00:25.60] [00:26.23]From heaven's all gracious king [00:29.16] [00:31.02]The world in solemn stillness lay [00:36.08] [00:36.68]To hear the angels sing [00:43.77]Still through the cloven skies [00:47.88]They come [00:48.99]With peaceful wings unfurl [00:53.51] [00:54.07]And still their heavenly music floats [00:58.76] [00:59.34]O'er all the weary world [01:03.23] [01:05.04]Above its sad and lowly plains [01:09.99]They bend on hovering wing [01:13.22] [01:15.92]And ever o'er its Babel sounds [01:20.49] [01:21.27]The blessed angels sing [01:24.76] [01:29.17]Yet with the woes of sin and strife [01:33.92] [01:34.45]The world has suffered long [01:37.93] [01:39.96]Beneath the angel-strain have rolled [01:44.99]Two thousand years of wrong [01:48.44] [01:50.44]And man at war with man hears not [01:55.60]The love-song which they bring [01:59.34] [02:01.29]O hush the noise ye men of strife [02:05.81] [02:06.61]And hear the angels sing [02:10.11] [02:14.47]And ye beneath life's crushing load [02:19.21] [02:19.76]Whose forms are bending low [02:22.83] [02:25.05]Who toil along the climbing way [02:29.21] [02:29.99]With painful steps and slow [02:33.37] [02:35.61]Look now for glad and golden hours [02:39.81] [02:40.50]Come swiftly on the wing [02:43.74] [02:46.03]O rest beside the weary road [02:50.63] [02:51.15]And hear the angels sing [02:55.15] [02:58.76]For lo the days are hastening on [03:03.38] [03:04.08]By prophet bards foretold [03:07.02] [03:09.04]When with the ever-circling years [03:14.19] [03:14.86]Comes round the age of gold [03:17.71] [03:19.55]When peace shall over all the earth [03:23.83] [03:24.67]Its ancient splendors fling [03:28.06] [03:29.88]And the whole world give back the song [03:34.70]Which now the angels sing