40 Days of Rain
album: Cover Stories (2015), track 11 of 12
author: Jeff Talmadge
publisher: Tot Siens Music (BMI) © 2002
My name is Elton Evans, I live out in the country A half a mile past where the last road ends And this dry land was my Daddy’s and it was his Daddy’s, too And what I am is all I’ve ever been What I am is all I’ve ever been And across the way the Thompson place sold out late last year His wife says hanging on is just insane Yeah, it’s true the kids are gone and they’re not coming back Anymore than we’ll see forty days of rain Anymore than we’ll see forty days of rain CHORUS Sometimes you get the thunder When the rain’s what you need Sometimes all that you can do is pray Lately I been praying hard for forty days of rain To come and wash the whole damn place away To come and wash the whole damn place away Two years ago the fields burned up and left us bad in debt Last year it was more or less the same Someday this land may take me but it can’t take me yet Cause I’m waiting on those forty days of rain Yeah, I’m waiting on those forty days of rain CHORUS Next year you might find me here waiting for the flood Maybe forty days of thunder, forty days of mud It’s not the life that most would choose, it’s my life just the same Living on a dry-land farm and waiting for the rain Living on a dry-land farm and waiting for the rain CHORUS Sometimes you get the thunder When the rain’s what you need Sometimes all that you can do is pray Nowadays I'm praying hard for forty days of rain To come and wash the whole damn place away To come and wash the whole damn place away My name is Elton Evans, I live out in the country A half a mile past where the last road ends And this dry land was my Daddy’s and it was his Daddy’s, too And what I am is all I’ve ever been What I am is all I’ve ever been
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