It Came Upon The Midnight Clear-Westminster Abbey Choir

[ti:It Came Upon The Midnight Clear] [ar:Westminster Abbey Choir] [al:Christmas With Sir Harry Sicombe] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]It Came Upon The Midnight Clear - Westminster Abbey Choir [00:00.99]It came upon the midnight clear [00:04.60] [00:05.38]That glorious song of old [00:08.69] [00:10.84]From angels bending near the earth [00:14.86] [00:15.53]To touch their harps of gold [00:18.97] [00:21.06]Peace on the earth goodwill to men [00:25.77]From heaven's all gracious king [00:28.82] [00:31.11]The world in solemn stillness lay [00:35.26] [00:36.06]To hear the angels sing [00:39.95] [00:43.54]Still through the cloven skies they come [00:48.03] [00:48.66]With peaceful wings unfurled [00:52.06] [00:54.10]And still the heavenly music floats [00:58.16] [00:59.07]O'er all the weary world [01:02.47] [01:04.79]Above it's sad and lowly plains [01:08.89] [01:09.57]They bend on hovering wing [01:13.37] [01:15.12]And ever over this babel sounds [01:19.41] [01:20.07]The blessed angels sing [01:23.29] [01:28.25]Yet with the woes of sin and strife [01:32.65] [01:33.19]The world hath suffered long [01:36.77] [01:38.95]Beneath the heavenly strain have rolled [01:43.11] [01:43.83]Two thousand years of wrong [01:47.68] [01:49.80]And man at war with man hears not [01:54.10] [01:54.72]The loving which they bring [01:57.98] [02:00.28]O hush the noise ye men of strife [02:04.29] [02:04.94]And hear the angels sing [02:08.10] [02:12.73]For lo the days are hastening on [02:16.98] [02:17.67]By prophets seen of old [02:21.62] [02:22.96]When with the ever-circling years [02:27.37] [02:28.06]Shall come the time foretold [02:31.40] [02:33.51]When the new heaven and earth shall own [02:38.27] [02:38.88]The prince of peace their king [02:42.02] [02:43.90]And the whole world send back the song [02:48.74] [02:49.50]Which now the angels sing