Buy For Me The Rain chords by Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

Chords with lyrics

Buy for Me the Rain:Nitty Gritty Dirt
Band.
#45 on BB Hot 100 on LIBERTY Records
in 1967.


INTRO: G+G C majorC C minorCm Bb majorBb


#1.
C majorC
Buy for me the rain, my darling, buy for me
  FF
the rain.
C majorC
Buy for me the crystal pools that fall upon
  FF
the plain.
                   G+G
And I'll buy for you a rainbow and a million

pots of gold.
C majorC       Bb majorBb      FF       Bb majorBb
Buy it for me now, babe, before I am too old.
     C majorC
(I am too old.)

#2.
C majorC       FF        C majorC
Buy for me the sun, my darling, buy for me the

sun.
        Bb majorBb          C majorC
Buy for me the light that falls when day has

just begun.
     FF             G+G
And I'll buy for you a shadow to protect you from

the day.
C majorC       Bb majorBb               C majorC
Buy it for me now, babe, before I go away-ay-ay.


#3.
C majorC       Bb majorBb       FF
Buy for me the robin, darling, buy for me the wing.
C majorC      FF
Buy for me a sparrow, almost any flying thing.
FF                   G+G
And I'll buy for you a tree, my love, where a robin's

nest may grow.
C majorC       G minorGm       FF        Bb majorBb
Buy it for me now, babe, the years all hurry so.
      C majorC
(they hurry so.)

#4.
C majorC
I cannot buy you happiness, I cannot buy you years.
C majorC        FF       C majorC
I cannot buy you happiness, in place of all the tears.
     FF              G+G
But I can buy for you a gravestone, to lay behind

your head.
C majorC               FF
Gravestones cheer the living, dear, they're no use
    Bb majorBb          C majorC
to the dead..(no use to the dead.)


OUTRO: FF C majorC FF G+G C majorC Bb majorBb FF G..(Fade.)



A augmentedA sixties smash from Kraziekhat.