It occurred to me that though we have gathered on one thread a number of songs from another of different genres about rain & storms, there aren't many examples of religious songs.

Here's a link to the lyrics to Mahalia Jackson's version of the African American spiritual "Didn't It Rain":

http://www.rhapsody.com/mahaliajackson/gospelsspiritualshymns/didntitrain/lyrics.html

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Here's a link to a YouTube of Mahalia Jackson singing this song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DnKysWTXSk

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And here's another version of this song by the Five Blind Boys Of Alabama:

Didn't It Rain
[African American Spiritual]

CHORUS
Well, didn't it rain children?
God gonna send the water from Zion;
He gonna raise heaven up higher,
Didn't it rain, rain, rain.

Verse #1
My Lord, my God got angry on his thrown. ["throne"]
He didn't like what he heard when he got testimony.
Go down angel and stir up a flood;
Role back the sun and change the moon into blood.
Come back angel and bar the door;
God given grace won't be no more.

They tell me, great God, when it started to rain,
Women and children came running in vain.
They bang on the widow, battered at the door,
Saying Brother Noah, can you take on more?
Noah said, "I'm sorry my friend,
God got the key and you can't get in."
Noah wasn't worried 'bout the children getting in;
He was worried 'bout the animals more.

CHORUS
Well, didn't it rain children?
God gonna send the water from Zion;
He gonna raise heaven up higher,
Didn't it rain, rain, rain.

VERSE #2
Tell me it rained forty days and nights without stopping;
Noah looked out at the water but the water kept a dropping.
He sent out a raven, he sent out a dove,
But the water, good God, kept coming from above.
They tell me little children, the bird did sing,
But he couldn't find land to rest his wing.
Noah wasn't worried 'bout the resting of his wing;
He was worried 'bout the animals more.

CHORUS
Well, didn't it rain children?
God gonna send the water from Zion;
He gonna raise heaven up higher,
Didn't it rain, rain, rain.

VERSE #3
They tell me that the wind did blow and the ship did rock,
But Noah couldn't find nowhere to stop.
My God spoke and whispered low;
Told brother Noah where he wanted him to go.
He said look out Noah, the rain gone stop;
I want you to land on the mountain top.
God showed Noah a rainbow sign,
And said it won't be water but fire next time.
But Noah wasn't worried 'bout the rainbow sign;
He was worried 'bout the animals more.

CHORUS
Well, didn't it rain children?
God gonna send the water from Zion;
He gonna raise heaven up higher,
Didn't it rain, rain, rain.

http://www.kovideo.net/lyrics/b/Blind-Boys-Of-Alabama/Didnt-It-Rain.html