Thunder – The Rain (Guitar)

     D         C             G        D 
The sun beats down on this thirsting land

 F          G     D
Burning my will away

      D      C             G        D
It's many a mile from the eastern shore

         F      G         D
And the hope I felt that day

     D          C            G       D
We crossed the sea from the old country

         F       G       D
To the promised land we came

             D      C          G         D 
And then we headed west on a thankless quest

         F        G          D
To the place we staked our claim

         Bm
Now the eagle that's circling overhead, 

             D   G D D
He knows my name

           Bm                    F#
'Cause the only thing plentiful here is the

             Em
Dust on the plain

       A              D   D G D   F G D
Until God brings the rain

       D            C    G           D
Wasn't always this way, back in the day

     F           G          D
All life sprang from this ground

            D             C
But like a slow-burning curse 

       G             D
Every year's gotten worse

    F          G           D
So someday it must turn around

        Bm
As the wagons are rolling on out 

                D   G D D
They call me insane

        Bm                       F#
But I'm not gonna let this land break me,

         Em
I'll be staying

       A              D   D G D
Until God brings the rain

Am
  God help me

Gm                          Dm  Gm
  Don't you forsake me this way

Dm               A
Am I nothing to you?

Gm
  How much suffering

Bb                      E
  Must I stand in your name?

                     A
I'm only asking for rain

     D        C         G          D
The sun sits high in a cruel blue sky

 F         G      D
Mocking me every day

      D        C            G          D
Last night I cried when a storm passed by

       F        G     D
About fifteen miles away

       D      C        G         D
In a dream I saw the coast once more

       F       G       D
And I walked into the sea

               D        C
I'd have been happy to die 

         G            D
As that moment passed by

       F            G  D
But I woke to this misery

        Bm
And the way things are going

                                  D   G D D
I don't know how much more I can take

          Bm
Well, I'm no kind of quitter 

     F#                   Em
But how long can any man wait

A                  Em
  How long must I wait

A                     D    D G D 
 'Til God brings the rain?