Waiting for Rain

Story Behind The Song

based on drought in central Virginia in the mid 80s

Song Description

farmer copes with drought and fears for future

Song Length 3:14 Genre Folk - Rural, Folk - Bluegrass
Tempo Medium (111 - 130) Lead Vocal Male Vocal
Mood Poignant, Worried Subject Farmer, Rain
Language English

Lyrics

Waiting for Rain
Written by Gene Mills
© 2008 Heart Pine Music

[Chorus] Green fields turn to brown
Dirt roads turn to dust
Machinery lays in the field for weeks
but it don't rust.
The cattle that are left
are eating last year's grain
and I ain't doing nothing but waiting for rain

You can't make hay when the sun shines the whole summer long,
I can use the rest, I can't complain.
I can watch TV all day
and look out now and then
at a cloudless sky
through a dusty windowpane

I'd like to do some fishing
at that pond just down the road
but first it turned to mud and then hardpan.
Boy, we caught some fish there
'fore it went completely dry
You could scoop up bass
and bluegill with your hands

[Chorus]

The money in my bank account
the water in my well
last week they finally disappeared
and I'm wondering if the bank is gonna
give me one more loan
and hoping I'll be able pay it back next year

[Chorus]

Lyrics Gene Mills Music Gene Mills
Producer Gene Mills and Bill McElroy Publisher Heart Pine Music
Performance Guitar, vocals: Gene Mills; Mandolin, harmony vocal: Steve Smith; Bass: Gayla Mills Label Heart Pine Music

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