RAIN ON THE RIVER
 

Rain pattered down upon the leaves,
dripping off the boughs of trees
in pitter-pats upon the ground,
making a light drumming sound.

Below the trees the river sang
and from the boughs that overhang
the river’s edge along the wind,
the raindrops all were keeping time,
in tune with the river’s song,
pitter-patting right along.

Drops seemed to dance upon the waves,
seems on this gray and rainy day,
sang patter-pat on fallen logs
and now and then an old bull frog
would call out with a chug-a-rum,
sounding like a big bass drum.

Rain on the river played a song
and the river just kept moving on,
rippling in rhythmic waves,
sweet music for a rainy day
as all along the river’s wind
raindrops pitter-pat in time.