So May We

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Little flowers, nod and smile, So may you, so may I

Author: James Rowe
Tune: [Little flowers nod and smile]
Published in 2 hymnals

Audio files: MIDI

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1 Little flowers nod and smile;
So may you, so may I;
They make gladness all the while;
So may you and I.

Chorus:
So may you and so may I,
Smile and sing as days go by;
Let us both begin to try,
You and I.

2 Sunbeams make dark places bright;
So may you, so may I
Day by day they show their light;
So may you and I. [Chorus]

3 Songbirds fill the air with song;
So may you, so may I;
Oft they cheer a heart along;
So may you and I. [Chorus]

4 Jesus cheered the sad and lone;
So may you, so may I;
Made their cares and griefs his own;
So may you and I. [Chorus]

Source: Sunday School Voices, No.2 #180

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Author: James Rowe

Pseudonym: James S. Apple. James Rowe was born in England in 1865. He served four years in the Government Survey Office, Dublin Ireland as a young man. He came to America in 1890 where he worked for ten years for the New York Central & Hudson R.R. Co., then served for twelve years as superintendent of the Mohawk and Hudson River Humane Society. He began writing songs and hymns about 1896 and was a prolific writer of gospel verse with more than 9,000 published hymns, poems, recitations, and other works. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916) Go to person page >

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First Line:	Little flowers, nod and smile, So may you, so may I
Title:	So May We
Author:	James Rowe
Refrain First Line:	So may you and so may I
Publication Date:	1909
Copyright:	Public Domain