[Intro - repeats once after each verse]
D G D
D A D
[Verse]
D
When I was five years old
G D
Lookin' through the window pane,
D
There was debt growin' in the fields,
A D
Every year it was the same,
D
There was burnt up corn,
G D
Livin' in a dusty haze,
D A
And daddy'd say good night son, I love you,
D
And pray for rain.
[Verse 2]
D G D
Well, it was about mid-July when daddy's pride sank,
D A D
He told my momma, he was goin' to the bank,
D G D
He put on his Sunday's best, but it didn't hide his pain,
D
The banker said take the money son,
A D
But you better, pray for rain.
[Verse 3]
D
Well there's no clouds to hide the sun,
G D
And there's no waters in the creeks,
D
And there's a fear in the congregation,
A D
Every Sunday when we meet,
D
That the devil's found West Texas
G D
And he may never leave,
D
The preacher gives his sermon,
A D
Says pay your tithes and pray for rain.
[Verse 4]
D
Now my daddy's land is mine,
G D
And times sure ain't the same,
D
The blacktop's taken over,
A D
There's no room to grow the grain,
D
And now the man down at the bank
G D
Well he don't understand my pain,
D A
Cause he don't have to lay his head down every night,
D
And pray for rain.
[Verse 5]
D
When I was five years old
G D
Lookin' through the window pane,
D
There was debt growin' in the fields,
A D
Every year it was the same,
D
There was burnt up corn,
G D
Livin' in a dusty haze,
D A
And daddy'd say good night son, I love you,
D
And pray for rain.
