Howard Mcbane chords by Angry Johnny And The Killbillies

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There's a man in my town named Howard McBane
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Twenty years ago he said he'd come to make it rain
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(The) crops they all were dying back in eighteen ninety three
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Howard came to town and told them put your faith in me
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He rode in on a train from east of the big river
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It was so damn hot that morning still I couldn't help but shiver
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Daddy told me he wa'n't nothing but a snake oil dealer
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to these desperate farmers Howard seemed like a faith healer

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Howard told the people if they wanted to have water
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sign the dotted line, bring him their money wine and daughters
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common folk get desperate when there's nowhere left to turn
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last summer was a scorcher, their fields were sun burned
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so they gave him what he wanted what else could they do
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he winked and laughed and told them, I'll make it rain on you
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then Howard climbed the hill on the southern edge of town
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and he ranted and he chanted and the rain came pouring down


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Howard McBane rode in on that train
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come to make it rain
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this town will never be the same

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Howard McBane rode in on that train
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come to make it rain
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Howard McBane

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There's a man in my town named Howard McBane
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Twenty years ago he said he'd come to make it rain
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Now there ain't no woman in this town Howard ain't defiled
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Ain't nothing that he don't own for two hundred square miles
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(We) thought he was a miracle, (but) he was no messiah
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no amount of holy water can put out this fire
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train that came up straight from hell twenty years ago
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is heading back to Hades with a cargo of lost souls


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Howard he is heading to another dried up town
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where they'll sign his dotted line and he'll make that rain come down
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Howard McBane is a demon, an archangel from hell
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drain your soul for a couple drops of water in your well
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now your seeds are all dying in the ground where they fell
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and he's off to find more suckers who need rain
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Howard McBane
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