This song was inspired by a West African rhythm which is similar to a lot of folk music. The time signature is 7/8 but feels more like 12/8 as it's all in triplets! I wrote the lyrics in 2007 after terrible floods in the UK and devastating floods in Kenya. Although the tune seems happy, the message is serious.I was delighted that Jo May agreed to play the bodhran and spoons on this track with Paddy Uglow on the fiddle. It reached #1 in all genres here for several weeks! Mastered version.
Chandra Moon - composition, guitar
Richard Bloom - guitar, arrangement and production
Jo May - bodran, traditional bone spoons
Paddy Uglow - fiddles
Ursula Monn - backing vocals
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The Rain
Rain it falls upon the ground,
On the fields and on the towns.
Rivers fill until they flood
Streets and houses full of mud.
Rain, rain it poureth down
Please dear God
Don’t let us drown!
Rain, rain it poureth down
Please dear God
Don’t let us drown!
The sky turned black, the clouds did form
We had to shelter from the storm.
The wind it blew, the branches sway
The sun it should be bright today
But rain, rain it poureth down
Please dear God
Don’t let us drown!
Rain, rain it poureth down
Please dear God
Don’t let us drown!
We’ve burnt the coal and used the oil
Sucked the life from the very soil
They say that things will only get worse
And global warming’s our future's curse.
Rain, rain it poureth down
Please dear God
Don’t let us drown!
Rain, rain it poureth down
Please dear God
Don’t let us drown!
Rain, rain it poureth down
Please dear God
Don’t let us drown!
Rain, rain it poureth down
Please dear God
Don’t let us drown!
Chandramoon © July 2007
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