Burl Ives - It Came Upon a Midnight Clear

[00:09.60] It came upon a midnight clear [00:14.49] That glorious song of old [00:19.04] From angels bending near the Earth [00:23.70] To touch their harps of gold [00:27.94] Peace on the Earth, good will to men [00:33.09] From heaven's all gracious King [00:37.32] The world in solemn stillness lay [00:42.16] To hear the angels sing [00:47.15] Still through the cloven skies they come [00:52.17] With peaceful wings unfurled [00:56.53] And still their heavenly music floats [01:01.26] O'er all the weary world [01:05.94] Above its sad and lowly plains [01:10.33] They bend on hovering wing [01:15.04] And ever o'er its Babel sounds [01:19.91] The blessed angels sing [01:25.11] Yet with the woes of sin and strife [01:29.92] The world has suffered long [01:34.72] Beneath the heavenly strain have rolled [01:39.63] Two thousand years of wrong [01:44.40] And man at war with man hears not [01:49.28] The tidings which they bring [01:54.07] Oh hush, the noise, ye men of strife [01:59.05] And hear the angels sing [02:06.01]