Verse
F# C#
Her pride and his joy was raven black
B C# F#
It ran like a river of silk down her back
F# C#
She brushed it every morning one hundred times
B C# F#
And he washed it for her on Saturday nights
[Verse 2]
F# C#
Then drought struck the heartland in 1935
B C# F#
They didn’t have water for Saturday nights
F# C#
It all seemed so hopeless so she cut it with the shears
B C# F#
And he held her close and said through her tears
[Chorus]
B C# F#
I’ll build you a barrel to catch the rain
B C#
To wash out the dust of the Kansas plain
B C# B
I swear you’ll never have to cut your hair again
B C#
If it’s the last thing I do on this earthly plane
B C# F#
I’ll give you a barrel of rain
[Verse 3]
F# C#
So he worked in the evenings when he finished up the chores
B C# F#
He cut out some staves from a chest of drawers
F# C#
He bound them with leather, sealed them with tar
B C# F#
Then he got to his knees and prayed in the yard
[Chorus]
B C# F#
I’ve built this barrel to catch the rain
B C#
To wash out the dust of the Kansas plain
B C# B
If you give me this, Lord, I’ll never ask for nothing again
B C#
Just a little thundercloud now and then
B C# F#
To give her a barrel of rain
[Verse 4]
F# C#
But the rain never came, the barrel sat dry
B C# F#
She watched as the truth of it ate him alive
F# C#
Then God took the crops, and the bank took back the land
B C# F#
When his spirit broke, he just folded his hands
[Chorus]
B C# F#
As the sun beat down on his thirsty grave
B C#
She thought of the fields that he plowed in vain
B C# B
She screamed at the sky with all her rage and pain
B C#
He didn’t want much and he never complained
B C# F#
Dear God, he just wanted a barrel of rain
[Verse 5]
F# C#
Her pride and his joy is now white as milk
B C# F#
And it runs down her back like a river of silk
F# C#
All that she brought to these Oregon shores
B C# F#
Was a barrel made out of an old chest of drawers
[Chorus]
B C# F#
The neighbors all whisper that she’s insane
B C#
The way that she stares at the driving rain
B C# B
And waits for the gutters to fill it up again
B C#
Then on Saturday nights if the sky is tame
B C# F#
She washes her hair in a barrel of rain
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