Chords for Scott Ainslie: It's Gonna Rain

_ [D] _ _ _ _ In _ June of 2005, I [B] decided that I needed to write a rhythm and blues love song.
_ I think [C] everybody should have one of these [Am] songs.
And _ _ [D] _ I set it in South Louisiana where I have a lot of friends.
_ Very evocative, _ [Dm] _
_ very sexy landscape, [B] human, I hope they saw it.
_ _ _ _ [A] And this is my favorite kind of love song,
The guy is there, the girl is single.
_ [D] _ _ [G] _
I have [D] learned from my own bitter experience that if the girl sits around her,
ladies and gentlemen, things get complicated.
_ _ [B] And these songs are short, [E] we haven't got time for all that,
so I figured I'd just get rid of her in the first verse.
Deal with the record. _
_ [Am] _ _ [D] I sang it first around the 4th of July of 2005
at the Music Festival of Maryland. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [B] _
But six and a half weeks later Katrina rolled through,
[D] scraped the Gulf [E] Coast clean and the levies failed in New Orleans levies.
[Am] They had been [D] begging the Bush administration for the next [G] two-thirds of the money to get them fixed.
_ [Bm] Being a black democratic city, they didn't get [D] that.
They had a third of it under Clinton [E] and it didn't come through.
A corps of [B] engineers couldn't do anything about it.
The levies failed.
It was [Am] not a natural disaster.
It was a political assassination [D] of one of my favorite cities.
_ _ _ _ So without changing a word, this became a song not about losing somebody, _
but about [B] losers.
_ _ _ I got to play this two years ago with Bradford Marsalis
_ in an [D] unrecorded concert, a benefit concert for the North Carolina [G] Symphony.
It was $8 million [D] in the hole.
Can you imagine them coming to me to play a benefit concert for them?
I mean this is great.
_ _ [B] It was Bradford and friends that I got to be with.
So I'm going to leave you to imagine [Am] him sneaking in during the bridge
and playing a chorus to this [Dm] song on the soprano saxophone.
[D] It was one of the most beautiful things.
_ _ [G] _ _ [D] _ [Bm] It's a down and a Vangelini
_ _ [B] _ wearing one of your pretty things.
_ [Am] Never forget how you [Am] looked that [D] day.
Your eyes so bright as you walked my way.
But I've been lonely, _ I've been blue.
[B] _
Feeling lost since I lost you.
[E] And the wind's picking up on me.
[Am] Watch your [D] face before you see _ _ it's gonna rain.
_ _ _ _ Yeah, [B] gonna _ rain.
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_ _ _ _ _ Yeah, [B] gonna rain.
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Sun's peeking in underneath the blinds.
_ [B] What makes you think you're welcome here?
_ _ [Em]
Well, find [E] yourself some place else to [D] shine.
_ I gotta get out of here.
[G] There's beer bottles and [D] broken Mardi Gras beans _
laying [B] up between _ popcorns.
[C] Got me a cold [Am] morning here in New Orleans.
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[Em] And [B] I'm gonna leave you to imagine him sneaking in during the bridge
and playing a chorus to this song on the soprano saxophone.
It's a down and a Vangelini
Never forget how you looked [E] _ that [D] day.
Your eyes so _ bright _ [C] as you walked my way.
And I'm gonna fly to that moon, I swear I [G] can see your [C]
face.
_ _ [D] _ _ _ _ [G] _
Half lit [D] beneath the cypress [E] trees.
With the cottonwoods whispering in the evening [Am] breeze.
I know you've [Em] gone, I know we've [D]
changed.
But I still get this feeling I can smell the rain.
I never come down here to Bourbon Street.
[E] Nobody in this crowd that I care to meet.
[A] But I'll have [C] one little [D] whiskey in your name.
As I run for the doorway, it starts to rain.
It's gonna _ _ rain.
_ _ [B] Well, gonna rain. Gonna rain.
_ Oh, [D] _
_ _ _ _ _ yeah, [B]
gonna rain.
_ _ _ Oh, it's [C] gonna rain.
[Em] _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [C] Yeah, gonna rain.
_ [Bm] _ _ [A] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ [N] _
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