Come Rain or Come Shine

"Come Rain or Come Shine"
Single
from the album St. Louis Woman
Released1946
Composer(s)Harold Arlen
Lyricist(s)Johnny Mercer

"Come Rain or Come Shine" is a popular music song and jazz standard with music by Harold Arlen and lyrics by Johnny Mercer. It was written for the Broadway musical St. Louis Woman, which opened on March 30, 1946, and closed after 113 performances. The show also produced another notable standard, "Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home."

"Come Rain or Come Shine" is one in a series of enduring songs with meteorological themes that Arlen composed through the course of his career, including "Stormy Weather" (1933), "Ill Wind" (1934), "Over the Rainbow" (1939), "When the Sun Comes Out" (1941), and "I Never Has Seen Snow" (1954).