Rodney Crowell – I Wish It Would Rain (Ukulele)

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------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tabbed by: dave Email: [email protected] This is from "The Houston Kid." It is a brilliant song from a brilliant record that Rodney wrote about his childhood and the childhoods of his best friends growing up. It is amazing.
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Song Chords:
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Turning tricks on sunset, twenty bucks a pop

     Bm                                 G
Some out of town old business man or an undercover cop

D                               Bm
I'm living with a virus flowing way down in my veins

G                     D
Oh I wish it would rain

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I know you've heard my story or seen me on the street

Bm                                  G
Just another cracker gigolo dressed up like trick or treat

D                               Bm
Now you may want to judge me or treat me with disdain

G                  D
Oh I wish it would rain

G
Memphis, Texas; Houston, Tennesee

        D
Man I'm just so turned around I don't know where I want to be

G
This California desert is driving me insane

D                  G
Oh I wish it would rain

D                                        F#m
So I've squandered my resistance, taking any kind of drug

    Bm                            G
I'd smoke or shoot or eat it, I'd drink it from a jug

D                           Bm
I offer no excuses for your sympathies to gain

G                  D
Oh I wish it would rain

G
Everybody knows me as the kid

     D
I've made it seven years still I don't know how I did

G
I come from a long line of live and love in vain

D                  G
Oh I wish it would rain

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So I've prayed to mother Mary, I've even seen a priest

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When the angels come to get me, I know I'll be released

     D
I'll leave this mean old desert bound for Memphis on that train

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Oh I wish it would rain (X2)
| / slide up | \ slide down
| H  hammer-on
| p  pull-off
| ~ vibrato | + harmonic | x Mute note ===============================================================================D