12398 | The Cyber Hymnal#12399 | 12400 |
Text: | Keep On The Sunny Side Of Life |
Author: | Ada J. Blenkhorn |
Tune: | [There’s a dark and a troubled side of life] |
Composer: | J. Howard Entwisle |
1 There’s a dark and a troubled side of life;
There’s a bright and a sunny side, too;
Tho’ we meet with the darkness and strife,
The sunny side we also may view.
Refrain:
Keep on the sunny side,
Always on the sunny side,
Keep on the sunny side of life;
It will help us every day,
It will brighten all the way,
If we keep on the sunny side of life.
2 Tho’ the storm in its fury break today,
Crushing hopes that we cherished so dear;
Storm and cloud will in time pass away,
The sun again will shine bright and clear. [Refrain]
3 Let us greet with a song of hope each day,
Tho’ the moments be cloudy or fair;
Let us trust in our Savior alway,
Who keepeth every one in His care. [Refrain]
Text Information | |
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First Line: | There’s a dark and a troubled side of life |
Title: | Keep On The Sunny Side Of Life |
Author: | Ada J. Blenkhorn (1899) |
Refrain First Line: | Keep on the sunny side |
Language: | English |
Source: | Bright Melodies by John R. Sweney and Howard Entwisle (Philadelphia: John J. Hood, 1899) |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
Notes: | This song was inspired by Ada’s disabled nephew, who loved to have his wheelchair pushed down the sunny side of the street. The Carter family, of country music fame, learned of the song from Alvin P. Carter’s uncle, a music teacher. They recorded it in Camden, New Jersey, in 1928, and it became their theme song on the radio in later years. Alvin Carter’s tombstone in the Mount Vernon Methodist Church Cemetery in Hiltons, Virginia, has a gold record of the song embedded in it. The Whites sang the song in the 2000 film O Brother, Where Art Thou? |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | [There’s a dark and a troubled side of life] |
Composer: | J. Howard Entwisle |
Key: | A♭ Major |
Copyright: | Public Domain |