Rise and Shine

Rise and Shine (Arkie, Arkie)
Author Unknown.  Public Domain.

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The Lord said to Noah, there's gonna be a floody, floody. (repeat)
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Get those children out of the muddy, muddy,
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Children of the Lord.  So...

chorus:
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  Rise and shine and give God the glory, glory.
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  Rise and shine and give God the glory, glory.
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  Rise and shine and give God the glory, glory,
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  Children of the Lord.

The Lord said to Noah, you'd better build an arkie, arkie. (repeat)
Build it out of gopher barkie, barkie,
Children of the Lord.  So...
(chorus)

The animals they came in, they came in by twosies, twosies. (repeat)
Elephants and kangaroosies, roosies,
Children of the Lord.  So...
(chorus)

It rained and it poured, for forty daysies, daysies. (repeat)
Drove those animals nearly crazy, crazy,
Children of the Lord.  So...
(chorus)

The animals, they came out, they came out by threesies, threesies. (repeat)
Learned about those birds and beesies, beesies,
Children of the Lord.  So...
(chorus)

The sun came out and dried up the landy, landy. (repeat)
Everything was fine and dandy, dandy,
Children of the Lord.  So...
(chorus)

This is the end of this little story, story. (repeat)
Everything is hunky dory, dory,
Children of the Lord.  So...
(chorus)

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