The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #5783   Message #4011961
Posted By: Jim Dixon
04-Oct-19 - 07:37 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Keep on the Sunny Side
Subject: RE: Origins: Keep on the Sunny Side
The words and music to

KEEP ON THE SUNNY SIDE OF LIFE
Words by Ada Blenkhorn, music by J. Howard Entwisle, ©1899.

can be seen in The New Living Hymns: (Living Hymns No. 2), compiled by John Wanamaker, (Philadelphia & Chicago: John J. Hood, 1902), page 28.

Another copy appears in Pentecostal Hymns: Number Three, selected by Henry Date (Chicago & New York: Hope Publishing Company, 1902), page 28.

The lyrics are exactly what the Carter Family sings, as I hear them—except that they omit “though” from the beginning of verse 2, and they reverse “storm and cloud” in the same verse.