On the shoulders of her father Ada looked out on the land
From her perch she viewed the mountains and exclaimed, "Wow, life is grand"
At the base there was a river, Ada watched the water flow
As she followed it up to the source she saw the ice and snow
So Ada started thinking and as the wheels turned round her brain
Her father squeezed her ankle and told her that it soon would rain
Ada scampered down from off her dad and looked up in the sky
She had so many questions but all that she could ask was why
Her father held her little hand and they found the nearest tree
He chose a comfy sheltered spot and he sat her on his knee
As water then came pouring down, Ada’s father did explain
All that he knew of what it takes, for the sky to make its rain.
Did you know that all around us there is water in the air,
Little droplets, oh so tiny we can’t see that they are there.
They move about at random until the pressure gets to great
So they clump to form the clouds where then together they all wait.
As the clouds get even denser and they turn from white to grey
We can see from down below here that the rain is on its way.
And out here in the valley where the weather is warm and nice
We get rain but in the mountains water turns to snow and ice
Ada turned to see her father and said, “Dad, how did you know
That my question’s second part was then how do they make the snow?”
He chuckled with his daughter then got up and took her hand
And they skipped home through the water saying, wow, hey life is grand.