Pray the Clouds Away

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When you hear the thunder booming, when you see the lightning flash

Author: Herbert Buffum (1938)
Tune: [When you hear the thunder booming, when you see the lightning flash]
Published in 8 hymnals

Author: Herbert Buffum

Herbert Buffum was born in La Fayette, Illinois 13 November 1879. He became a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He started preaching at seventeen years of age. He did city mission work up and down the Pacific Coast and later in small towns in Kansas. He began publishing hymns at the age of eighteen. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916) Go to person page >

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First Line:	When you hear the thunder booming, when you see the lightning flash
Title:	Pray the Clouds Away
Author:	Herbert Buffum (1938)
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	Pray the clouds away, the dreary clouds so dark and gray
Copyright:	© 1938, by James D. Vaughan