{"id":7618,"date":"2013-12-01T08:04:05","date_gmt":"2013-12-01T12:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7618"},"modified":"2019-11-08T09:35:56","modified_gmt":"2019-11-08T13:35:56","slug":"it-came-upon-a-midnight-clear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7618","title":{"rendered":"It Came Upon A Midnight Clear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/images\/midnight_clear.jpg\" width=\"500\/\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"audio\">\n<div class=\"alignright caption\"> <a href=\"?page_id=6069\">How do I download this Mp3?<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"audio_link\"> Mp3: <a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/midnight_clear.mp3\">It Came Upon A Midnight Clear &#8211; Click To Play<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"about\">\nThe poem for this carol was composed in 1849 by Edmund Sears at the request of his friend, William Parsons Lunt, pastor of United First Parish Church, Quincy, Massachusetts. It was not until a year later that Richard Storrs Willis, a composer who trained under Felix Mendelssohn came up with the beautiful melody.<\/p>\n<p>I have recorded this with layers of Rickenbacker 12-string guitar to emulate bells ringing from an old grey stone church tower.<\/p>\n<div class=\"lyrics-header\">Lyrics:<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics\">\n<p>[G] It came [C] upon the [G] midnight clear,<br \/>\nThat glorious [C] song of [D] old,<br \/>\n[G] From angels [C] bending [G] near the earth,<br \/>\nTo [C] touch their [D] harps of [G] gold:<br \/>\n[Bm} &#8220;Peace on the earth, [Em] goodwill to men,<br \/>\nFrom [D] heaven&#8217;s [A7} all-gracious [D] King.&#8221;<br \/>\n[G] The world in [C] solemn [G] stillness lay,<br \/>\n[C] To hear the [D] angels [G] sing.<\/p>\n<p>Still through the cloven skies they come,<br \/>\nWith peaceful wings unfurled,<br \/>\nAnd still their heavenly music floats<br \/>\nO&#8217;er all the weary world;<br \/>\nAbove its sad and lowly plains,<br \/>\nThey bend on hovering wing,<br \/>\nAnd ever o&#8217;er its Babel sounds<br \/>\nThe bless\u00c3\u00a8d angels sing.<\/p>\n<p>Yet with the woes of sin and strife<br \/>\nThe world has suffered long;<br \/>\nBeneath the angel-strain have rolled<br \/>\nTwo thousand years of wrong;<br \/>\nAnd man, at war with man, hears not<br \/>\nThe love-song which they bring;<br \/>\nO hush the noise, ye men of strife,<br \/>\nAnd hear the angels sing.<\/p>\n<p>And ye, beneath life&#8217;s crushing load,<br \/>\nWhose forms are bending low,<br \/>\nWho toil along the climbing way<br \/>\nWith painful steps and slow,<br \/>\nLook now! for glad and golden hours<br \/>\ncome swiftly on the wing.<br \/>\nO rest beside the weary road,<br \/>\nAnd hear the angels sing!<\/p>\n<p>For lo!, the days are hastening on,<br \/>\nBy prophet bards foretold,<br \/>\nWhen with the ever-circling years<br \/>\nComes round the age of gold<br \/>\nWhen peace shall over all the earth<br \/>\nIts ancient splendors fling,<br \/>\nAnd the whole world give back the song<br \/>\nWhich now the angels sing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do I download this Mp3? Mp3: It Came Upon A Midnight Clear &#8211; Click To Play The poem for this carol was composed in 1849 by Edmund Sears at the request of his friend, William Parsons Lunt, pastor of United First Parish Church, Quincy, Massachusetts. It was not until a year later that Richard &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7618\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;It Came Upon A Midnight Clear&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seasonal","category-spiritual"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7618"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8844,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7618\/revisions\/8844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}