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