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.)
A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.
