Steve Noonan – Buy For Me The Rain (live)




Steve Noonan: guitars & vocal, John McEuen: banjo, Jimmy Fadden: harmonica
Produced and mixed by Steve Noonan
Recorded live at the Golden Bear Reunion 26.09.09
(2nd guitar added a short time later at The Bat Cave)
(P) & (C) 2010 Steve Noonan
www.stevenoonan.com

“The way Greg and I worked together was always the same. He would slip the poetry under my door, I would open it, give it a first read and usually, within minutes, the music would come, and very soon after, the song would be done. This one came when we were in our last year of High School, at age 17 or 18. This very special live version features two original
members from the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band.”

Buy for me the rain, my darlin’, buy for me the rain
Buy for me the crystal pools that fall upon the plain
And I’ll buy for you a rainbow and a million pots of gold
Buy it for me now, babe, before I am too old

Buy for me the robin, darlin’, buy for me the wing
Buy for me the sparrow or most any flying thing
And I’ll buy for you a tree, my dear, where a robin’s nest will grow
Buy it for now, babe, the years all hurry so

Buy for me the sun, my darlin’, buy for me the sun
Buy for me the light that falls when day has just begun
And I’ll buy for you a shadow to protect you from the day
Buy it for me now, babe, before I go away

I cannot buy you happiness, I cannot buy you years
I cannot buy you happiness, in place of all the tears
So I’ll buy for you a gravestone to lay behind my head
Gravestones cheer the living dear, they’re no use to the dead
I’ll buy for you a gravestone to lay behind my head
Gravestones cheer the living dear, they’re no use to the dead

Buy for me the rain...

(Greg Copeland/Steve Noonan) – Nina Music/Warner, BMI –