Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E) Verse 1: G C G It came upon the midnight clear, C A D That glorious song of old, G C G From angels bending near the earth C D G To touch their harps of gold! B7 Em "Peace on the earth, good will to men, D A D From heaven's all gracious King! G C G The world in solemn stillness lay C D G To hear the angels sing.
Verse 2: G C G Still, through the cloven skies, they come C A D With peaceful wings unfurled G C G And still their heavenly music floats C D G O'er all the weary world; B7 Em Above its sad and lowly plains D A D They bend on hovering wing. G C G And ever o'er its Babel sounds C D G The blessed angels sing. Verse 3: G C G Yet with the woes of sin and strife C A D The world hath suffered long; G C G Beneath the angel-strain have rolled C D G Two thousand years of wrong; B7 Em And man, at war with man, hears not D A D The love song which they bring: G C G O hush the noise, ye men of strife, C D G And hear the angels sing Verse 4: G C G For lo! the days are hastening on C A D By prophet bards foretold G C G When, with the ever-circling years, C D G Shall come the Age of Gold; B7 G When peace shall over all the earth D A D It's ancient splendors fling, G C G And all the world give back the song C D G Which now the angels sing.