Popular Christmas Carols in Spanish
It Came Upon A Midnight Clear / A Medianoche Se Oyó
As Christmas time approaches in Guatemala, you will hear many popular Christmas carols in Spanish in schools, at the mall, and as you're driving or walking among the shops. Below you'll find the lyrics to It Came Upon A Midnight Clear in Spanish (or A Medianoche Se Oyó) and you can watch a video of it, as well.
This song dates back in the 1840s and was written by Edmund Sears, a pastor from a Unitarian church in Massachusetts. This is essentially a poem that Sears made upon the request of his good friend. Richard Storrs Willis gave the song its lovely tune. The song has five stanzas that have received many variations through the years. Some versions have ommitted the third stanza while the others removed the fourth one. This song can be heard in many Christmas albums of famous singers all over the world. Sergio Franchi, Daryl Hall & John Oates and Kutless are among the artists that included the song in their holiday albums.
Lyrics to It Came Upon A Midnight Clear in Spanish
A medianoche se oyó
Aquel dulce refrán
De ángeles que en unión
Las gratas nuevas dan:
"La paz y buena voluntad
Del gran Rey celestial".
El mundo en quietud oyó
El son angelical.
En gloria vedlos descender,
Los ángeles de Dios;
El triste mundo oirá
Su resonante voz.
En las llanuras de Belén
Se oye su canción,
Diciendo que de Dios bajó
Al mundo redención.
El tiempo ya predicho fue,
Por siervos del Señor,
Y en el mundo reinarán
La paz y el amor.
Entonces el Señor será
El Príncipe de Paz,
Y cantaremos otra vez
El canto de solaz.
Lyrics to It Came Upon A Midnight Clear in English
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, good will to men,
From heaven'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.
And ye, beneath life's crushing load,
Whose forms are bending low,
Who toil along the climbing way
With painful steps and slow,
Look now! for glad and golden hours
Come swiftly on the wing.
O rest beside the weary road,
And hear the angels sing!
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