Rise & Shine Traditional African American Song
C The Lord said to Noah F There’s gonna be a floody floody (repeat first 2 lines) C F “Get those children out of the muddy, muddy” G C Children of the Lord. So… C F Rise and shine and give God your glory glory (3x) G7 C Children of the lord So, Noah he built him, he built him an arky, arky (2x) Built it out of hickory barky, barky Children of the Lord. So… (chorus) The animals they come on, they came on by twosies, twosides (2x) Elephants and kangaroosy, roosies Children the Lord. So… (chorus) It rained and poured for forty days and daysies (2x) Drowned those animals nearly crazy, crazy Children of the Lord. So… (chorus) The sun came out and shore so pretty pretty (2x) And this ends our little ditty, ditty, Children of the Lord. So… (chorus) This is the end of the end of my story, story (2x) Everything was honkey dory, dory Children of the lord. So…
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