Catch the Sunshine
Author: George F. Root
Composer: George F. Root
Languages (21)
This song text has been indexed at SingPraises.net in the following languages:
- Chinese (Traditional): [Unknown title]
- Danish: Samler solskin
- Dutch: Vat het zonlicht
- English: Catch the Sunshine
- Finnish: Säde päivän
- French: Du soleil un rayon perce
- German: Fangt die Sonne! Treibt die Wolken!
- Hawaiian: Imi I Ka Pono
- Icelandic: Sólargeislinn
- Italian: Prendi il sole
- Japanese: [Unknown title]
- Korean: [Unknown title]
- Maori: Hopukia Mai nga Ihi
- Norwegian: Samle solskinn
- Portuguese: Recolhamos o Raio de Sol
- Samoan: Ia Fiafia Pea
- Spanish: Recojamos los destellos
- Spanish Braille: ⠠⠗⠑⠉⠕⠚⠁⠍⠕⠎ ⠇⠕⠎ ⠙⠑⠎⠞⠑⠇⠇⠕⠎
- Swedish: Fånga solens första stråle
- Tahitian: Tamau Te Maramarama
- Tongan: Kuo Hopo ʻa e Laʻā
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Most common tunes for “Catch the Sunshine”
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Appearances of “Catch the Sunshine” over time
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Copyright status of original text
This text was first published in English, in 1892 or earlier.
Public domain
Earliest source indexed at SingPraises.net: Children’s Sunday School Hymn Book (1899), 178.
Representative lyrics
English (Original Language)
1. Catch the sunshine! tho’ it flickers Thro’ a dark and dismal cloud, Tho’ it falls so faint and feeble On a heart with sorrow bowed. Catch it quickly! it is passing; Passing rapidly away; It has only come to tell you There is yet a brighter day.
2. Catch the sunshine! tho’ life’s tempest May unfurl its chilling blast, Catch the little, hopeful straggler Storms will not forever last; Don’t give up and say “forsaken!” Don’t begin and say “I’m sad!” Look! there comes a gleam of sunshine! Catch it! oh, it seems so glad.
3. Catch the sunshine! don’t be grieving O’er that darksome billow there! Life’s a sea of stormy billows, We must meet them ev’rywhere. Pass right thro’ them, do not tarry, Overcome the heaving tide, There’s a sparkling gleam of sunshine Waiting on the other side.
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