The Service of Praise ‎#185

185. The Song of Summer

1 What are the birdies singing
Under the azure skies?
Carols of joy they’re flinging,
Upward the glad notes rise;
Listen, you’ll hear the chorus,
“Summer is come again,
Scatt’ring her beauties glorious
Over the hill and glen.”

Refrain:
List to the song that the birdies sing,
Echoing sweetly o’er the dale and glen,
“Glad summer has come again!”

2 What is the song of gladness
Floating upon the air,
Banishing tho’ts of sadness,
Fraught with a sweetness rare?
Listen! You’ll hear it ringing
Over the daisied mead,
Birds in the tree-top singing
“Summer is come indeed!” [Refrain]

3 Down where the streams are flowing,
Murm’ring they trip along;
Down where the clover’s growing,
There you may hear the song,
Echoing o’er the mountain,
Whispered by humming bees,
Changed by sparkling fountain,
Sung by the passing breeze. [Refrain]

4 What is the joyful chorus
Sounding o’er hill and plain?
Summer is crown’d victorious,
Hail, to her merry reign!
Summer in beauty vernal,
Rules us with flow’ring wand,
Gift of a love eternal,
Gift from a Father’s hand! [Refrain]

Text Information

• First Line: What are the birdies singing
• Title: The Song of Summer
• Author: Birdie Bell
• Refrain First Line: List to the song that the birdies sing
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 1900

Tune Information

• Name: [What are the birdies singing]
• Composer: J. Howard Entwisle