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Buy For Me The Rain by Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

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



INTRO: G C Cm Bb


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

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


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

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

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

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


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

nest may grow.
C             Gm             F               Bb
Buy it for me now, babe, the years all hurry so.
            C
(they hurry so.)


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

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



OUTRO:  F C F G C Bb F G..(Fade.)




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