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[What tho' a cloud should sweep over your sky]

Appears in 3 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: B. D. Ackley Hymnal Title: The New Praiseworthy Tune Key: G Major Incipit: 51234 45653 32365 Used With Text: Drive It Away With a Song

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Drive It Away With a Song

Author: E. E. Hewitt Appears in 4 hymnals Hymnal Title: The New Praiseworthy First Line: What tho' a cloud should sweep over your sky Refrain First Line: Drive it away, drive it away Lyrics: 1 What tho' a cloud should sweep over your sky, Veiling the sunbeams that sparkle on high? - Fear not, the shadow will pass by and by; Drive it away with a song. (a song.) Chorus: Drive it away, drive it away, Love will the echoes prolong; Sing on with gladness, banish your sadness, Drive it away with a song. 2 Has some resentment wrought strife and ill-will? Love and forgiveness work miracles still; Let no wrong-feeling your cup of life fill, Drive it away with a song. (a song.) [Chorus] 3 Song of the blessings, so many and sweet, Like heav'nly blossoms that smile 'round your feet; And if some grievance perchance you may meet. Drive it away with a song. (a song.) [Chorus] Used With Tune: [What tho' a cloud should sweep over your sky]

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Drive It Away With a Song

Author: E. E. Hewitt Hymnal: Joy to the World #68 (1915) Hymnal Title: Joy to the World First Line: What tho' a cloud should sweep over your sky Refrain First Line: Drive it away Languages: English Tune Title: [What tho' a cloud should sweep over your sky]

Drive It Away With a Song

Author: E. E. Hewitt Hymnal: The Golden Sheaf No. 2 #182 (1916) Hymnal Title: The Golden Sheaf No. 2 First Line: What tho' a cloud should sweep over your sky Refrain First Line: Drive it away, drive it away Languages: English Tune Title: [What tho' a cloud should sweep over your sky]

Drive It Away With a Song

Author: E. E. Hewitt Hymnal: The New Praiseworthy #57 (1916) Hymnal Title: The New Praiseworthy First Line: What tho' a cloud should sweep over your sky Refrain First Line: Drive it away, drive it away Lyrics: 1 What tho' a cloud should sweep over your sky, Veiling the sunbeams that sparkle on high? - Fear not, the shadow will pass by and by; Drive it away with a song. (a song.) Chorus: Drive it away, drive it away, Love will the echoes prolong; Sing on with gladness, banish your sadness, Drive it away with a song. 2 Has some resentment wrought strife and ill-will? Love and forgiveness work miracles still; Let no wrong-feeling your cup of life fill, Drive it away with a song. (a song.) [Chorus] 3 Song of the blessings, so many and sweet, Like heav'nly blossoms that smile 'round your feet; And if some grievance perchance you may meet. Drive it away with a song. (a song.) [Chorus] Languages: English Tune Title: [What tho' a cloud should sweep over your sky]

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E. E. Hewitt

1851 - 1920 Hymnal Title: The New Praiseworthy Author of "Drive It Away With a Song" in The New Praiseworthy Pseudonym: Lidie H. Edmunds. Eliza Edmunds Hewitt was born in Philadelphia 28 June 1851. She was educated in the public schools and after graduation from high school became a teacher. However, she developed a spinal malady which cut short her career and made her a shut-in for many years. During her convalescence, she studied English literature. She felt a need to be useful to her church and began writing poems for the primary department. she went on to teach Sunday school, take an active part in the Philadelphia Elementary Union and become Superintendent of the primary department of Calvin Presbyterian Church. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)

B. D. Ackley

1872 - 1958 Hymnal Title: The New Praiseworthy Composer of "[What tho' a cloud should sweep over your sky] " in The New Praiseworthy Bentley DeForrest Ackley was born 27 September 1872 in Spring Hill, Pennsylvania. He was the oldest son of Stanley Frank Ackley and the brother of A. H. Ackley. In his early years, he traveled with his father and his father's band. He learned to play several musical instruments. By the age of 16, after the family had moved to New York, he began to play the organ for churches. He married Bessie Hill Morley on 20 December 1893. In 1907 he joined the Billy Sunday and Homer Rodeheaver evangelist team as secretary/pianist. He worked for and traveled with the Billy Sunday organization for 8 years. He also worked as an editor for the Homer Rodeheaver publishing company. He composed more than 3000 tunes. He died 3 September 1958 in Winona Hills, Indiana at the age of 85 and is buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Warsaw, Indiana, near his friend Homer Rodeheaver. Dianne Shapiro (from ackleyfamilygenealogy.com by Ed Ackley and Allen C. Ackley)