Original Key: D
Tempo: 0
Verse 1:
D Bm7 Em7 Asus4
It came up – on the mid – night clear,
A D/F# G Asus4 A
That glor - ious song of old,
F#m7 Bm7 Em D/G A
From an - gels ben - ding near the earth
D D/G A Dsus4 D
To touch their harps of gold:
F#sus4 F# Bm
'Peace on the earth, good – will to men
A/C# D Esus4 Asus4 A
From heav'n's all gra – cious King!'
F#m7 B Em7 D/G A
The world in sol - emn still – ness lay
D D/G A Dsus4 D
To hear the an – gels sing.
Verse 2:
D Bm7 Em7 Asus4
Still through the clov - en skies they come,
A D/F# G Asus4 A
With peace - ful wings un - furled,
F#m7 Bm7 Em D/G A
And still their heaven - ly mu - sic floats
D D/G A Dsus4 D
O'er all the wea - ry world:
F#sus4 F# Bm
A - bove it's sad and low - ly plains
A/C# D Esus4 Asus4 A
They bend on hov - ering wing,
F#m7 B Em7 D/G A
And ever o'er its Ba - bel sounds
D D/G A D
The bles - sed an - gels sing.
Verse 3:
D Bm7 Em7 Asus4
Yet wi - th woes of sin and strife
A D/F# G Asus4 A
The world has suff - ered long,
F#m7 Bm7 Em D/G A
Be - neath the an - gel-strain have rolled
D D/G A Dsus4 D
Two thousand years of wrong;
F#sus4 F# Bm
And man, at war with man, hears not
A/C# D Esus4 Asus4 A
The love song which they bring:
F#m7 B Em7 D A
O hush the noise, ye men of strife,
D D/G A Dsus4 D
And hear the an - gels sing.
Verse 4:
D Bm7 Em7 Asus4
For lo! The days are haste - ning on,
A D/F# G Asus4 A
By prop - het bards fore - told,
F#m7 Bm7 Em D/G A
When with the ever - cir - cling years
D D/G A Dsus4 D
Comes round the age of gold;
F#sus4 F# Bm
When peace shall over all the earth
A/C# D Esus4 Asus4 A
Its anc - ient splen - dours fling,
F#m7 B Em7 D A
And all the world send back the song
D D/G A D
Which now the an - gels sing.
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