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Pray the Clouds Away

When you hear the thunder booming, when you see the lightning flash

Author: Herbert Buffum (1938)
Tune: [When you hear the thunder booming, when you see the lightning flash]
Published in 5 hymnals

Author: Herbert Buffum

Herbert Buffum was born in La Fayette, Illinois 13 November 1879. He became a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He started preaching at seventeen years of age. He did city mission work up and down the Pacific Coast and later in small towns in Kansas. He began publishing hymns at the age of eighteen. 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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Text Information

First Line: When you hear the thunder booming, when you see the lightning flash
Title: Pray the Clouds Away
Author: Herbert Buffum (1938)
Language: English
Refrain First Line: Pray the clouds away, the dreary clouds so dark and gray
Copyright: © 1938, by James D. Vaughan
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Timeline

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Instances

Instances (1 - 5 of 5)

Beautiful Praise #126

Beautiful Praise #126

Best of All #128

Best of All #128

Gems of Devotion #103

Gems of Devotion #103
Page Scan

Gospel Song Jewels No. 2 #81

Gospel Song Jewels No. 2 #81

Radio and Revival Special #103

Radio and Revival Special #103
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