IT WAS ONLY A SUN SHOWER

(Music: Ted Snyder / Lyrics: Irving Kahal & Francis Wheeler)


Ted Weems & His Orch. (vocal: Dusty Rhodes) - 1927

Annette Hanshaw & Her Sizzlin' Syncopators- 1927

The California Ramblers (vocal: Ed Kirkeby) - 1927

The Rollickers - 1927

The Rangers - 1927

Harry Downing & Charlotte DeLovelace (feat. in the short 

film "The Morrissey & Miller Night Club Revue") - 1928

Barbara Rosene - 2007






As recorded by ANNETTE HANSHAW, 28th September 1927, 

with Joe Venuti (violin), Eddie Lang (guitar) & Vic Berton (drums):



My lonesome clock'll tick-tick-tock all through the day 

When you're away, I'm blue, so blue

We quarreled, dear, but don't you fear, I'll soon return 

You know you're yearning, I know you're yearning, too 


Honey, don't you cry

Clouds are rolling by 

The rainbow's in the sky

It was only a sun shower 


In the shelter of 

Sunny skies above

We will live and love

It was only a sun shower


Now, why do we complain 

We should be cheerful and gay

Tomorrow sun will shine again 

Although it's cloudy today

Love finds a way 


So, honey don't be blue

We'll go smiling through 

Forever

It was only a sun shower, sweetheart


(Instrumental Break) 


Honey, don't you cry 

Clouds are rolling by 

The rainbow's in the sky 

It was only a little sun shower 


In the shelter of 

Sunny skies above 

We will live and love 

It was only a little sun shower


Now, why do we complain 

We should be cheerful and gay 

Tomorrow sun will shine again

Although it's cloudy today 

Love finds a way 


So, honey don't be blue 

We'll go smiling through

Forever 

It was only a sun shower, sweetheart


That's all!



(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - July 2014)