Happy Children

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We are happy children, for this days is ours

Author: James Rowe
Tune: [We are happy children] (Wilson)
Published in 1 hymnal

Audio files: MIDI

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1 We are happy children,
For this day is ours—
This whole day of sunshine,
Joy and songs and flow’rs.

Refrain:
Children’s Day, Children’s Day,
Day to all so bright,
Free from sadness, full of gladness,
Pleasure and delight.

2 Gifts of fragrant flowers
Unto Christ we bring;
For this day was given
By our loving King. [Refrain]

3 In his blessed presence,
Gathered round his feet,
We will sing his praises—
Sing with joy complete. [Refrain]

4 Savior, keep us faithful,
Let us never stray,
Then we shall be always
Happy as today. [Refrain]

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Author: James Rowe

Pseudonym: James S. Apple. James Rowe was born in England in 1865. He served four years in the Government Survey Office, Dublin Ireland as a young man. He came to America in 1890 where he worked for ten years for the New York Central & Hudson R.R. Co., then served for twelve years as superintendent of the Mohawk and Hudson River Humane Society. He began writing songs and hymns about 1896 and was a prolific writer of gospel verse with more than 9,000 published hymns, poems, recitations, and other works. 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:	We are happy children, for this days is ours
Title:	Happy Children
Author:	James Rowe
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	Children's Day, Children's Day
Publication Date:	1908
Copyright:	Public Domain