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Meter: 12.11.12.9 with refrain Appears in 5 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Martyn Christian Tinne Strover (b. 1932) Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 33332 21111 22333 Used With Text: There's water, water of life

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There's water, water of life

Author: Martyn Christian Tinne Strover (b. 1932) Meter: 12.11.12.9 with refrain Appears in 5 hymnals First Line: Have you heard the raindrops drumming on the rooftops? Lyrics: 1 Have you heard the raindrops drumming on the roof tops? Have you heard the raindrops dripping on the ground? Have you heard the raindrops splashing in the streams and running to the rivers all around? Refrain: There's water, water of life, Jesus gives us the water of life; there's water, water of life, Jesus gives us the water of life. 2 There's a busy workman digging in the desert, digging with a spade that flashes in the sun; soon there will be water rising in the wellshaft, spilling from the bucket as it comes. [Refrain] 3 Nobody can live who hasn't any water, when the land is dry then nothing much grows; Jesus gives us life if we drink the living water, sing it so that everybody knows. [Refrain] Topics: Our Response to Christ In Discipleship; Children; Water Scripture: Job 8:11 Used With Tune: HAVE YOU HEARD THE RAINDROPS

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Have you heard the raindrops (Water of life)

Author: Christian Strover Hymnal: Complete Anglican Hymns Old and New #817 (2000) First Line: cold December flies away (En el frío invernal) Refrain First Line: There's water, water of life Lyrics: 1 Have you heard the raindrops drumming on the roof tops? Have you heard the raindrops dripping on the ground? Have you heard the raindrops splashing in the streams and running to the rivers all around? Refrain: There's water, water of life, Jesus gives us the water of life; there's water, water of life, Jesus gives us the water of life. 2 There's a busy workman digging in the desert, digging with a spade that flashes in the sun; soon there will be water rising in the well-shaft, spilling from the bucket as it comes. [Refrain] 3 Nobody can live who hasn't any water, when the land is dry then nothing much grows; Jesus gives us life if we drink the living water, sing it so that ev'rybody knows. [Refrain] Topics: Aid and Development Children's Hymns and Songs; Baptism Children's Hymns and Songs; Evangelism Children's Hymns and Songs; Grace and Providence Children's Hymns and Songs; Year A Lent 3; Year A Pentecost; Years A, B, and C Epiphany Scripture: John 4:10-15 Languages: English Tune Title: [Have you heard the raindrops drumming on the rooftops]

There's water, water of life

Author: Martyn Christian Tinne Strover, b. 1932 Hymnal: The Irish Presbyterian Hymnbook #344 (2004) First Line: Have you heard the raindrops drumming on the rooftops? Topics: Jesus Christ His Life and Ministry Languages: English Tune Title: HAVE YOU HEARD THE RAINDROPS

There's water, water of life

Author: Martyn Christian Tinne Strover (b. 1932) Hymnal: Church Hymnary (4th ed.) #525 (2005) Meter: 12.11.12.9 with refrain First Line: Have you heard the raindrops drumming on the rooftops? Lyrics: 1 Have you heard the raindrops drumming on the roof tops? Have you heard the raindrops dripping on the ground? Have you heard the raindrops splashing in the streams and running to the rivers all around? Refrain: There's water, water of life, Jesus gives us the water of life; there's water, water of life, Jesus gives us the water of life. 2 There's a busy workman digging in the desert, digging with a spade that flashes in the sun; soon there will be water rising in the wellshaft, spilling from the bucket as it comes. [Refrain] 3 Nobody can live who hasn't any water, when the land is dry then nothing much grows; Jesus gives us life if we drink the living water, sing it so that everybody knows. [Refrain] Topics: Our Response to Christ In Discipleship; Children; Water Scripture: Job 8:11 Languages: English Tune Title: HAVE YOU HEARD THE RAINDROPS

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Noel Rawsthorne

b. 1929 Arranger of "[Have you heard the raindrops drumming on the rooftops]" in Complete Anglican Hymns Old and New

Christian Strover

1932 - 2020 Person Name: Martyn Christian Tinne Strover (b. 1932) Author of "There's water, water of life" in Church Hymnary (4th ed.) Christian T. Strover (b. Colchester, Essex, England, 1932) received the B.Litt. and MA degrees from Hertford College in Oxford, England. He was director of music at Emanuel School (Battersea Rise), 1956-1997) and organist and choirmaster at Christ Church in Beckenham, Kent, England (1956-2020). He has composed and arranged a number of hymn tunes, some of which appeared in Psalm Praise (1973). Bert Polman, (revised Dianne Shapiro, from email sent to Hymnary)