It's Gonna Rain Again
(Charles Bishop Johnson)

	It's gonna rain, it's gonna rain
	You'd better get ready and bear this in mind
	God showed Noah the rainbow sign
	"It won't be water but fire next time"

	It's gonna rain, (oh Lord), it's gonna rain
	You'd better get ready and bear this in mind
	God showed Noah the rainbow sign
	"It won't be water but fire next time"

Way back in the Bible days (doo doo, doo doo)
Noah told the people that it's going to rain (doo doo, doo doo)
But when he told them, they paid him no mind (ooh)
And when it happened they were all left behind in the rain, Lord

	It's gonna rain, it's gonna rain
	You'd better get ready and bear this in mind
	God showed Noah the rainbow sign
	"It won't be water but fire next time"

They tell me when the water began to pour (doo doo, doo doo)
They knocked on the window, they even knocked on the door (doo doo, doo doo)
They didn't know exactly just what to do do (ooh)
But I know you don't want this same thing to happen to you

	It's gonna rain, (oh Lord), it's gonna rain
	You'd better get ready and bear this in mind
	God showed Noah the rainbow sign
	"It won't be water but fire next time"

Noah said, "Well, I'm sorry my friends (doo doo, doo doo)
God's got the key and you can't come in (doo doo, doo doo)
If something don't happen to the hearts of men (ooh)
That same old thing is gonna happen again", I say

	It's gonna rain, It's gonna rain
	You'd better get ready and bear this in mind
	God showed Noah the rainbow sign
	"It won't be water but fire next time"

	It's gonna rain, (oh Lord), It's gonna rain
	You'd better get ready and bear this in mind
	God showed Noah the rainbow sign
	"It won't be water but fire next time"
	"It won't be water but fire next time"

Praise the Lord!


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It's gonna rain again.
Type of Work: 	Music
Registration Number / Date: 	EU0000234556 / 1971-02-16
Title: 	It's gonna rain again.
Notes: 	Words & music.
Copyright Claimant: 	Charles Johnson (A)
	
Names: 	Johnson, Charles
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Type of Work: 	Sound Recording
Registration Number / Date: 	N00000002738 / 1972-10-24
Title: 	It's gonna rain again. Artist: Sensational Nightingales, sound recording: Peacock Records, Inc.
Notes: 	Disc (music)
Copyright Claimant: 	UMG Recordings, Inc. (PWH)
Basis of Claim: 	New Matter: sound recording.
Copyright Note: 	C.O. correspondence.
	
Variant title: 	It's gonna rain again.
Names: 	Sensational Nightingales
	Peacock Records, Inc.
	UMG Recordings, Inc.
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Type of Work: 	Recorded Document
Document Number: 	V1724P496
Date of Recordation: 	1979-03-12
Entire Copyright Document: 	V1724 P407-512
Registration Number Not Verified: 	N5649 (1972)
Title: 	It's gonna rain again / Artists: Sensational Nightingales. PLP-175. N5649 (1972)
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IT S GONNA RAIN AGAIN
BMI Work # 743248
Total Controlled by BMI: 100%
SONGWRITER/COMPOSER	CURRENT AFFILIATION	CAE/IPI #
JOHNSON CHARLES BISHOP	BMI 	15406222
PUBLISHERS	CURRENT AFFILIATION	CAE/IPI #
SONGS OF UNIVERSAL INC	BMI 	353271280
recorded by Sensational Nightingales
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© 1971 Lion Publishing Company, Inc.

This version San Francisco, California, 13 November 1980
Transcription by serge 16 February 2020

Sensational Nightingales:
7" "It's Gonna Rain Again" / "A Heart Like Thine" Peacock Records 3180 (February 1971)
https://www.discogs.com/fr/The-Sensational-Nightingales-Its-Gonna-Rain-Again/master/1122413
https://www.45cat.com/record/nc456492us
https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_1271105
LP "It's Gonna Rain Again" Peacock Records PLP 175 (October 1974)
https://www.discogs.com/The-Sensational-Nightingales-Its-Gonna-Rain-Again/release/11365748
https://www.45cat.com/record/p3196
7" "At The Meeting" / "It's Gonna Rain Again" Peacock Records P-3196 (April 1975)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqqm8x79K4o