| Rain, rain, rain.
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| Rain, rain, rain.
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| Rain, rain, rain, rain.
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| Well, didn’t it rain, children.
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| God’s gonna send the waters from Zion.
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| He’s good raise his Heaven up higher,
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| It’s gonna rain. |
| (Well, it’s gonna rain.)
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| Well stop! |
| Great God, stop still and listen.
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| My God walked down by the briny sea,
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| Beheld the evil of the sinful man;
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| Declared that he would destroy the land.
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| He spoke to Noah; |
| Noah stopped.
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| He said: «Noah, I want you to build an ark.
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| «I want you to build it big and strong.
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| «Build it three hundred cubits along,
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| «Thirty high and fifty wide,
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| «'Cause it’s got to stand that rain and tide.
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| Well, rain, children.
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| God’s gonna send the waters from Zion.
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| He’s good raise his Heaven up higher,
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| It’s gonna rain. |
| (Well, it’s gonna rain.)
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| Well, after God told him what to do,
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| Noah began to cut and hew.
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| The ringing of the saw cried «Judgement.»
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| The ringing of the hammer cried «Sinner repent.»
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| A hundred years, he hammered and sawed,
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| Building the Ark by the Grace of God.
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| After the foundation was laid,
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| He hewed the timber and the Ark was made.
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| «Lord, let it rain.»
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| Behold the Ark was made.
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| Oh, Noah.
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| (Well, he called in the animals two by two.)
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| (The ox, and the camel, and the kangaroo.)
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| Oh, Noah.
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| (Well, they called in Japeth, Ham and Shem.)
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| (And God began to flood the land.)
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| Oh, Noah.
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| (He raised his hands to heaven on high.)
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| (He knocked the sun, the moon from the sky.)
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| Oh, Noah.
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| (Shook the mountains and wobbled the sea.)
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| (And He hitched his reins to the chariot wheels.)
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| Oh, Noah.
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| (Stepped on the land and stood on the shore.)
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| (And declared that time would be no more.)
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| Rain, rain, rain.
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| Rain, rain, rain.
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| Oh, Noah: Noah, didn’t it rain.
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| Rain, rain, rain.
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| Rain, rain, rain.
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| Rain, rain, rain, rain.
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| My Lord, then the wind did blow and the Ark did rock,
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| And Noah couldn’t find nowhere to dock.
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| My God spoke and he whispered low.
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| Showed old Noah where he wanted him to go.
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| He said: «Look a-here, Noah, the rain’s done stopped,
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| «And I want you to land on the mountaintop.»
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| Showed old Noah a rainbow sign,
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| Said: «It won’t be a rain but fire next time.»
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| Rain, rain, rain.
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| Rain, rain, rain.
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| Oh, Noah: Noah, didn’t it rain.
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| Rain, rain, rain.
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| Rain, rain, rain.
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| Oh, Noah: Noah, didn’t it rain. |