It Came Upon the Midnight Clear (arr. David Willcocks) (1985 Digital Remaster) - King's College Choir Cambridge/David Willcocks/John Wells

It came upon the 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 heavens 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

Over all the weary world

Above its sad and lowly plains

They bend on hovering wing

And ever over its babel sounds

The blessed angels sing

Yet with the woes of sin and strife

The world has suffered long

Beneath the blessed angel strain have rolled

Two thousand years of wrong

And man at war with man hears not

The love-song which they bring

O hush the noise ye men of strife

And hear the angels sing

For lo the days are hastening on

By prophets seen of old

When with the ever-circling years

Shall come the time foretold

When the new heaven and earth shall own

The prince of peace their king

And the whole world send back the song

Which now the angels sing