‘There Is Sunshine in My Soul Today”

The text was written by Eliza Edmunds Hewitt (1851-1920). A teacher in Philadelphia, PA, she was attempting to correct an unruly student who struck her across the back with a heavy slate. After she had spent six months in a cast recovering from this injury, her physician at last permitted her to go for a short walk in a nearby park on a warm spring day. Her heart overflowed with joy and after her walk, she produced this song, among her first. The tune (Sunshine) was composed by John Robson Sweney (1837-1899). The song was published in the 1887 songbook Glad Hallelujahs edited by Sweney and William James Kirkpatrick.

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