Song Lyrics

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