Beautiful Rain (Philip P. Bliss)
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- (Posted 2023-09-26) CPDL #75730:
- Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-09-26). Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 589 kB Copyright: Personal
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General Information
Title: Beautiful Rain
Composer: Philip P. Bliss
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1878 John Church & Co.
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Original text and translations
English text
Hear the music of the rain, falling down,
On the roof and window pane, falling down.
“Murmur not,” it seems to say,
For Our Father’s love today
Orders only in our way
Good to fall.
Like the gentle falling rain,
Over mountain, lake, and plain,
Will his tender care remain,
Over all.
Hear the music of the rain, beautiful rain,
As the pearly drops in showers pattering fall;
Hear the sweet, subdued refrain,
On the roof and window pane
Of our Father’s tender love for all.
Hear the music of the rain, falling down,
On the roof and window pane, falling down,
What a lesson does it bring,
What a chorus does it sing,
What a message from our King
Of his love,
And we seem to hear him say,
“Come, ye children, learn my way,
From my fold no longer stray,
Look above.”
Hear the music of the rain, beautiful rain,
As the pearly drops in showers pattering fall;
Hear the sweet, subdued refrain,
On the roof and window pane
Of our Father’s tender love for all.
Philip Paul Bliss