Lyr ADD: Uncloudy Day? / Unclouded Day

31 Jul 97 - 09:54 PM (#9956)
Subject: Uncloudy Day
From: Ron K

I heard this tune on a movie a few nights ago, and I think it will be a good song to sing at a gig I'm playing next month. Does anyone have the lyrics? I tried a search of the data base but came up empty. I believe it is an old bluegrass song, but I heard a rock/reggae version that sounded like Don Henley. The chords would be nice as well.

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31 Jul 97 - 10:17 PM (#9957)
Subject: RE: Uncloudy Day
From: Les Blank

Try any of Willie Nelson's Greatest Hits CD's. You might also try COWPIE web site. (Don't have the URL handy, but any good engine will find it). I'm sure OLGA also has it. Good huntin' and I'll look a bit also !!

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01 Aug 97 - 01:37 AM (#9958)
Subject: Lyr Add: THE UNCLOUDED DAY (Rev. J. K. Alwood)
From:

What a wonderful old hymn! Try Stamps-Baxter's Heavenly Highway Hymns, compiled by Luther G. Presley of Pangburn, Arkansas. As a side note, he should be world famous (but isn't) as the man who wrote When The Saints Go Marching In.

Here we go, page 219.

The Unclouded Day words and melody by Rev. J. K. Alwood

O they tell me of a home far beyond the skies,
O they tell me of a home far away;
O they tell me of a home where no storm clouds rise,
O they tell me of an unclouded day.

Chorus
O the land of cloudless day,
O the land of an unclouded sky;
O they tell me of a home,
where no storm clouds rise,
O they tell me of an unclouded day.

O they tell me of a home where my friends have gone,
O they tell me of that land far away;
Where the tree of life in eternal bloom
Sheds its fragrance thru the unclouded day.

O they tell me of the King in His beauty there,
And they tell me that mine eyes shall behold,
Where He sits on the throne that is whiter than snow,
In the city that is made of gold.

O they tell me that he smiles on His children there,
And his smile drives their sorrows all away;
And they tell me that no tears ever come again,
In that lovely land of unclouded day.

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01 Aug 97 - 01:42 AM (#9959)
Subject: RE: Uncloudy Day
From: Dale Rose

Got it all right except my name.

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01 Aug 97 - 11:47 AM (#9968)
Subject: RE: Uncloudy Day
From: PattyG

Was the movie, by any chance, "Honeysuckle Rose" with Willie Nelson and Dyan Cannon? I would have sworn the title of the song was "Uncloudy Day", but the lyrics are right, as I remember, to "Unclouded Day" that someone? provided! Website for Cowpie is: http://www.roughstock.com/cowpie/cowpie-songs/

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01 Aug 97 - 01:06 PM (#9973)
Subject: RE: Uncloudy Day
From: Dale Rose

The song answers to both titles, but Unclouded is correct. Music Boulevard lists 14 entries for Unclouded and 16 for Uncloudy, some with sound samples, though I did not try any of them. Judging from Willie Nelson's recordings, you are probably correct in hearing the y.

This site has the words and a nice sound file. http://www.accessone.com/~rwadams/h/uncloudd.htm

This site has an interesting story of how it came to be written. I have included part of it here. http://www.umr.org/SFhym912.htm

Both words and music were written in the 1880s by Josiah K. Alwood, a circuit-riding preacher in the Midwest.

On a bright, moonlit night, he was riding home from a preaching appointment. As he rode along on horseback, thinking about the sermons that he had preached during the day, the melody and words began to form in his mind. Soon he was urging his horse along and singing at the top of his voice.

The next morning he wrote down the words and picked out the melody on the little Estey parlor reed organ in his home. Later a friend completed the tune, and it was published in Chicago about 1890.

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04 Aug 97 - 08:50 PM (#10061)
Subject: RE: Uncloudy Day
From: Ron K

Thanks a lot Dale and everyone else.

Patty G. The movie wasn't Honeysuckle Rose. I saw that one a few times, both before and after they changed the name. Unfortunately I can't remember the name of the movie I saw. I guess it wasn't very good, except for the music.

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27 Feb 24 - 10:56 PM (#4198192)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Uncloudy Day? / Unclouded Day
From: Joe Offer

Here's a performance from my area, Colla Voce of Auburn California.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4p6-hf8W4M&list=RDGMEMgGOgHdkrBSNHvacS9Sp8bg&index=1

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