Here are the Digital Tradition lyrics for this song. It's more-or-less what I learned from my sister when she was a Girl Scout camp counselor (we didn't sing such songs in boys' camps.) Any corrections?
RISE AND SHINE
The Lord said to Noah,
There's gonna be a floody, floody
Lord said to Noah,
There's gonna be a floody floody.
Get my children out of the muddy muddy
Children of the Lord.
cho: So rise and shine and give God the glory glory
Rise and shine and give God the glory glory
Rise and shine and give God the glory glory
Children of the Lord.
So Noah, he built him,
He built him an arky arky, (2x)
Built it out of hick'ry barky barky,
Children of the Lord.
The animals, they came in,
They came in by twosies twosies (2x)
Elephants and kangaroosies 'roosies,
Children of the Lord.
It rained and rained for
Forty daysies daysies (2x)
Drove those animals nearly crazy crazy
Children of the Lord.
The sun came out,
And dried up the landy landy (2x)
Everything was fine and dandy dandy
Children of the Lord.
The animals they went out
Went out by threesies threesies (2x)
Must have learned 'bout the birds and beesies beesies
Children of the Lord.
This is the end of
The end of my story story (2x)
Everything is hunky-dory dory
Children of the Lord.
Note: a jazzed-up version of the older, slower spiritual "Jacob's
Ladder" RG
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Here's the Traditional Ballad Index entry on this song:Rise and Shine
DESCRIPTION: "God said to Noah, there's gonna be a floody, floody.... (So) Rise and shine and give God the glory, glory... Children of the Lord." Noah builds the ark; the animals arrive, including elephants and kangaroos; it rains; it dries up
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1874 (Dett)
KEYWORDS: religious flood humorous
FOUND IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES (3 citations):
Dett, pp. 198-199, "Rise an' Shine" (1 text, 1 tune; pp. 212-213 in the 1874 edition)
Silber-FSWB, p. 388, "Rise And Shine" (1 text)
DT, RISESHIN
Roud #11968
RECORDINGS:
Pete Seeger, "Children of the Lord" (on PeteSeeger11)
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