Historic Sheet Music Collection
Title
Document Type
Score
Links to Recordings at the Internet Archive
https://archive.org/details/78_rainbow_bryan-and-kendrick-stanley-and-burr_gbia0012300a
https://archive.org/details/78_rainbow_del-wood-and-rhythm-accompaniment_gbia0006299a
https://archive.org/details/78_rainbow_harley-luse-and-his-blue-ridge-mountain-boys_gbia0024403b
https://archive.org/details/78_rainbow_ray-smith-bryan-wenrich_gbia0008801b
https://archive.org/details/78_rainbow_shannon-quartet-alfred-bryan-percy-wenrich_gbia0015841a
https://archive.org/details/78_rainbow_toby-dowdy-and-the-dixie-lily-highpointers-toby-dowdy-wenrich-bryan_gbia0008759b
Publication Date
1908
Lyrics
[Verse 1]
While the rain was softly falling in a forest glade,
Beyond the prairies far away,
Beneath a palm tree, so they say.
There stood an Indian chief one day,
There he spied a pretty maiden of a copper shade,
And as he gazed she drooped her head,
To hide her cheek with blushes red,
While these sweet words he said:
[Refrain]
Come be my Rainbow, my pretty Rainbow,
My heart beguile, give me a smile
Once in a while, In rain or sunshine, my Rainbow,
Keep your love light a-glow,
I love you so, my sweet Rainbow.
[Verse 2]
Then the rainbow shone out smiling from the summer sky,
And when she saw this sign she sighed,
“Now can’t you see it’s fate” he cried.
Come love and be my happy bride,
Brighter than the rainbow beamed the love-light in her eye,
And as they wandered home that night,
Beneath the moon-beams silv’ry light,
Of the sang with delight:
[Chorus]
Recommended Citation
Bryan, Alfred and Wenrich, Percy, "Rainbow" (1908). Historic Sheet Music Collection. 1386.
https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/sheetmusic/1386
The views expressed in this paper are solely those of the author.
Comments
MacIntosh Collection
New York: Jerome H. Remich & Co. (1908)
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