The Coming Rains Lyrics

by Bruce Cockburn
from The Charity Of Night
Tablature by Jonathan Tieszen and Steve Meger
Tuning F A C G C F
Chords:
F6sus2 0 5 5 0 0 0
Fsus4add9 0 1 0 0 0 0
Dm7#5 0 5 0 3 0 0
Gm7add11 2 1 2 0 0 0
Fmaj7sus2 0 7 7 0 0 0
Bmb6b5 0 2 2 0 2 0
Intro:
C 4 -----------------0---0---0---0- -----x-------4-s-5---5---5-p-0- 4
A -----------------3---3---3---3- -----x-------4-s-5---5---5-p-0-
All
Verse:
Coda F Fsus4add9
day the mountains rose behind the
#5
veil of smoke from burn ing fields.......
nd
road dust dye........ing black skin bronze.... and
#5
the road rol....ling like a ro.....ugh sea.........
Its
qui.....et now just crickets and a
dog fight some where in the far aw..
ay...........
In my
F Fsus4. Dm7#5 F
he.....art I hold your pho to....graph and the
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1. Gm7add11
thought of you comes on like the feel of the
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4 -----------------0---0---0---0- -----x-------4-s-5---5---5-p-0- 4
coming rains
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2. Gm7add11
thought of you comes on like the feel of the
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* -----------------0---0---0---0- -----x-------4-s-5---5---5-p-0-
coming rains (1st time only)
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3., 4. Gm7add11
thought of you comes on like the feel of the
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coming rains (lyrics 4th verse only)
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F @
(3rd verse) In the
(4th verse) and the
Bridge:
to.......wn ne.......on flickers in the
ruins
seven crows swoop past the lucious
moon
If I had wings like those thered be no
waiting Id come
panting to your door and slide like
s smoke in to your room..............
F F6sus2 D.S. al Coda
C 4 -----------------0---0---0---0- -----x-------4-s-5---5---5-p-0- 4
A -----------------3---3---3---3- -----x-------4-s-5---5---5-p-0-
All
@ F Fsus4. Dm7#5 F
time for plantings coming soon and the
thought of you comes on like the feel of the
coming rains
F Fsus4. Dm7#5 F