Look for the Silver Lining

Look on the brightest side of life

Author: Haldor Lillenas
Tune: [Look on the brightest side of life]
Published in 1 hymnal

Audio files: MIDI

Representative Text

1 Look on the brightest side of life,
Somewhere the sun is shining;
In ev’ry cloud that swings above,
Look for the silver lining.

Refrain:
Look for the silver lining,
Somewhere the sun is shining;
Waste not your time repining, friend, but
Look for the silver lining.

2 What tho’ your friends should leave today,
Others will come tomorrow;
There is a bright side ev’rywhere,
Happiness you can borrow. [Refrain]

3 Steep is the path you climb today,
Soon comes the peaceful valley;
Fair seems the fields and rolling hills
After the street and alley. [Refrain]

4 If all were sunshine, bright and clear,
With not a shade or shower,
We soon would miss the fruit and grain,
And ev’ry fruit and flower. [Refrain]

Source: Uplifting Songs #11

Author: Haldor Lillenas

Rv Haldor Lillenas DMus Norway/USA 1885-1959. Born at Stord, near Bergen, Norway, his father sold their 15 acre farm in Norway and emigrated to the U.S., buying a farm in Colton, SD. After he built a sod house, the family (wife and three chldren) also came to SD in 1887. They moved to Astoria, Oregon in 1889, where Lillenas learned English and began writing song lyrics at an early age. In 1900 the family moved again to Roseville, MN, where he worked as a farm laborer and began attending a Lutheran high school at Hawick, MN. He sold a few songs at age 19. At age 21 he began writing more songs, encouraged by some earlier ones becoming popular (“He set me free” was one). His mother died in 1906 and his father returned to ND, but Li… Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: Look on the brightest side of life
Title: Look for the Silver Lining
Author: Haldor Lillenas
Refrain First Line: Look for the silver lining
Publication Date: 1917
Copyright: Public Domain

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Uplifting Songs #11

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