April Showers chords by Caedmons Call

• Difficulty: Beginner 👶

Key: G

Verse 1:

 D   Cadd9                D     Cadd9  G
  Like April Showers on the slick cement
    D     Cadd9    D                Cadd9  G
  When I consider how our light is spent
    D      Cadd9        D           Cadd9  G
  Keeping the candles inside the cathedral
    D      Cadd9                    D
  Hold on tight, don't go into the night
   Cadd9      G
  So full of evil

  Cadd9  G  Cadd9 G  D

Chorus:
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   G               D
  Rain, rain, don't go away
   Cadd9            Cadd9
  We need you this dry and dusty day
   G               D
  Rain, rain, don't go away
   Cadd9            Cadd9
  Though some may say Please go away


Verse 2:
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   D   Cadd9               D      Cadd9
  Like April Showers on the slick cement
   D      Cadd9       D                      Cadd9
  And the roads, once straight, have now become so bent
   D       Cadd9               D     Cadd9
  Weaving through the trees of vain security
    D           Cadd9                        D
  Rounding round the hardest rocks of hard morality

  Cadd9 G  D  (This time the Cadd9 G after verse is played only once)


Chorus:
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   G               D
  Rain, rain, don't go away
   Cadd9            Cadd9
  We need you this dry and dusty day
   G               D
  Rain, rain, don't go away
   Cadd9            Cadd9
  Though some may say Please go away

(Intro Lick is played ONCE)

Bridge:
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   Em      Am7
  And the sacred cows
   Em          Am7
  Feed on the green
   Em          Am7
  While the least of these
       Em           D
  Are dying on the streets

  And they're crying  .

Chorus:
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   G               D
  Rain, rain, don't go away
   Cadd9            Cadd9
  We need you this dry and dusty day
   G               D
  Rain, rain, don't go away
   Cadd9            Cadd9
  Though some may say Please go away

Chorus:
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   G               D
  Rain, rain, don't go away
   Cadd9            Cadd9
  We need you this dry and dusty day
   G               D
  Rain, rain, don't go away
   Cadd9            Cadd9
  Though some may say Please go away

Outro:
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 D Cadd9 G

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Chord Signatures:
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e|-3---3---2----0-----0---
B|-3---3---3----0-----1---
G|-0---0---2----0-----0---
D|-0---2---0----2-----2---
A|-2---3---x----2-----0---
E|-3---x---x----0-----x---

   G Cadd9 D   Em    Am7