Chords with lyrics
(Cascades hit in 1963..#5 in UK and #1 USA.
Recorded on Johnny River's '20 Greatest Hits' album)
and on Johnny Rivers in Action in 1965.)
INTRO:Ab F minorFm (x2)
#1.
AbAb C#C#
Listen to the rhythm of the falling rain,
AbAb Eb MajorEb
telling me just what a fool I've been.
AbAb C#C#
I wish that it would go and let me cry in vain,
AbAb BbM7Bbm7 Eb MajorEb AbAb
and let me be alone a..gain.
#2.
AbAb C#C#
The only girl I care about has gone away..
AbAb Eb MajorEb
lookin' for a brand new start.
AbAb C#C#
But little does she know that when she left that day..
AbAb BbM7Bbm7 Eb MajorEb AbAb
along with her she took my heart.
CHORUS:
C#C# C minorCm
Rain please tell me now does that seem fair..
C#C# AbAb
for her to steal my heart away when she don't care?
F minorFm BbM7Bbm7 Eb MajorEb AbAb C#C# Eb MajorEb
I can't love another when my heart's somewhere far away.
#3.
AbAb C#C#
The only girl I care about has gone away..
AbAb Eb MajorEb
lookin' for a brand new start.
AbAb C#C#
But little does she know that when she left that day..
AbAb BbM7Bbm7 Eb MajorEb AbAb
along with her she took my heart.
(INTERLUDE:HARMONICA:)
BRIDGE:
C#C# C minorCm
Rain won't you tell her that I love her so,
C#C# AbAb
please tell the sun to set her heart aglow.
F minorFm BbM7Bbm7 Eb MajorEb AbAb C#C# Eb MajorEb
Rain in her heart and let the love we knew start to grow.
#4.
AbAb C#C#
Listen to the rhythm of the falling rain,
AbAb Eb MajorEb
telling me just what a fool I've been.
AbAb C#C#
I wish that it would go and let me cry in vain,
AbAb BbM7Bbm7 Eb MajorEb AbAb
and let me be alone a..gain.
OUTRO:
AbAb F minorFm
Oh, listen to the falling rain. (x2)
AbAb F minorFm
Pitter, patter, pitter patter.
AbAb F minorFm
Oh, listen to the falling rain. (x2)(Fade.)
A augmentedA sixties smash from Kraziekhat.