Name: It Came Upon A Midnight Clear
Channel: Edmund Hamilton Sears / Richard Storrs Willis
Description: "It Came Upon A Midnight Clear" is a song by Trick T Olly. Watch out, some may find this harmonica recording too piercing for their ears.

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Watch out, some may find this harmonica recording too piercing for their ears.

christmas edmund hamilton sears richard storrs willis

Trick T Olly

Elisha Zaporelostzi's first performances were the Open Stages put on by the Bytown Live in Ottawa Ontario, Canada. It is how Neil Young and Joni Mitchell started. Phreap magazine is a one page thing that went around Ottawa in the 1980s. Now it is a web site; http://home.att.ne.jp/blue/patchan With the help of Joe-Charly Smith, Molly Ding, Calhoon-Fred Febealie, and Butter Jones I was able to put out Phreap magazine.

Song Info

Genre

Alternative • Alternative

Author

Edmund Hamilton Sears / Richard Storrs Willis

Rights

Patrick T. Connolly

Uploaded

November 12, 2005

Track Files

MP3

MP3 1.9 MB • 128 kbps • 0:00

Story behind the song

This is the Christmas Carroll, It Came Upon A Midnight Clear, which I recorded the guitar track and harmonica tracks to, in December 1992 in London, Ontario. This October (2005) I played with effects to see what I could make out of these 2 tracks of a cassette 4 track tape recording.

The poem was written by Edmund Sears (1810-1876), in Wayland, Massachusetts. It was printed on December 29, 1849. The music was composed by American musician Richard Storrs Willis in 1859.
This info is from these sites;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Came_Upon_A_Midnight_Clear
http://www.carols.org.uk/it_came_upon_a_midnight_clear.htm

Lyrics

It came upon a midnight clear,
That glorious song of old,
From angels bending near the earth
To touch their harps of gold:
"Peace on the earth, goodwill to men,
From heav'n's all gracious King!"
The world in solemn stillness lay
To hear the angels sing.

Still through the cloven skies they come,
With peaceful wings unfurled,
And still their heavenly music floats
O'er all the weary world;
Above its sad and lowly plains
They bend on hovering wing;
And ever o'er its Babel sounds
The blessed angels sing.

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