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IF YOU WANT THE RAINBOW (YOU MUST HAVE THE RAIN)
(Oscar Levant (m) / Billy Rose / Mort Dixon (l) )
As recorded by Annette Hanshaw Oct 1928 < Harmony and Diva Labels >
Also sung by:
Art Jarrett (with Ted Weems and His Orchestra) 1928
Jack Hylton and His Orchestra
Fanny Brice
Janet Klein
Eva Taylor
Debbie Arthurs
What does it matter if rain comes your way
And raindrops patter along
For rain descending should not make you blue
The happy ending is waiting for you.
Take your share of troubles
Face it and don't complain
If you want the rainbow
You must have the rain.
Happiness comes double
After a little pain
If you want the rainbow
You must have the rain.
What if your love affair should breakup
As they sometimes will
When you kiss and makeup
Boy, what a thrill.
Sadness ends in gladness
Showers are not in vain
If you want the rainbow
You must have the rain.
Look for brighter weather
Or watch for the sun again
If you want the rainbow
Then you must have the rain.
Pull yourself together
Whistle a happy strain
If you want the rainbow
Then you must have the rain.
So if your lucky star deserts you
And if shadows fall
Even though it hurts you
Laugh through it all.
Be a cheerful looser
You have the world to gain
If you want the rainbow
Why you just must have the rain.
That's all!
NOTES:
(Catherine) Annette Hanshaw, an American, was a blues and jazz singer
from the 1920s and early 1930s and was purportedly one of the first
female jazz singers of that era.
She was known as 'The Personality Girl' or later as the 'The Flapper
Girl' by her followers and fit the 1920s period perfectly with her
flapper style and sweet innocent-sounding voice. She often ended her
songs with the cute tag "That's All".
See MY BLACKBIRDS ARE BLUEBIRDS NOW and
LOVABLE & SWEET
Some consider the later Hanshaw, a 'torch singer' along with the likes
of Ruth Etting, Mildred Bailey, Jane Froman and Bebe Daniels.
Strangely,she thought her abilities 'wanting' by her own standards and
retired early to married life, after only 15 years in the business.
Hanshaw also recorded under the names 'Gay Ellis' or 'Dot Dare' or
'Patsy Young' and a variety of other pseudonyms.
(Transcribed by David Story May 2014)
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