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