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SWEET RAIN 121708 - LA SOMBRA - BARBARA sings...

Uploaded December 18, 2008 1:12am.

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One night after three month of no rain, as we were driving home from singing at Gringos in Grapevine a splash of water hit the windshield.
I said to myself, “Sweet Rain.”
I went home and wrote the song. It’s on the soundtrack of a movie called THE VANISHING starring Jeff Bridges and Keefer Southerland.

Barbara Taylpr sings lead. Peggy Mitchel and I sing harmony. We played together for many years as TEXAS WATER. Our son, RaByn, then 12, played the guitar lead, the bass and percussion.

SWEET RAIN Key G

G Bass F# Em
It’s been a long dry spell
C Bass B Am
I haven’t done that well
Em D C
And when you reach a certain level
D
You just get by

I could draw you a map of hell.
Oh the stories I could tell
I watched a daughter of the devil
sit down and cry

C                       G

For rain, rain, rain, SWEET RAIN
Rain, rain, rain, SWEET RAIN
D
Rain to wash the salt away
C
Rain to melt a cloudy day
G
SWEET RAIN

The sun can ruin the land.
Turn your gardens into sand
Lap all the water from the river
until it runs dry

Oh, the ocean’s seen it all
It’s lived to see the forests crawl
Follow the clouds across the mountains
Now tell me why?

CHORUS

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James Michael Taylor said February 27, 2024 5:08pm

Candy Davis -Aethereally lovely,I love how the dreamlike music glides beneath the dreamlike lyrics.

James Michael Taylor said September 9, 2023 9:56pm

Cindy Grayson James Michael Taylor beautiful song

Guest said August 27, 2023 1:32pm

Such a fantastic song, and timely for many of us right now.

Guest said July 13, 2023 4:43pm

Great to hear Barbara's voice again. I'm playing this for some colleagues.

Guest said February 23, 2020 11:08pm

Damn... Barb had such a fine voice! It helped to have good JMT songs to sing... but I think she helped the songs too... like on this song and like on I'D BE GLAD TO LET YOU LOVE ME which is #3 on this album... but... it will be forever and forever in my memory as one of my most favorite songs of all time... on one of my most favorite albums of all time... FITW And I am NOT saying FITW is simply one of my favorite JMT albums! No, I'm saying that FEATHERS IN THE WIND is one of the best albums ever... by anyone!

G-no said November 25, 2011 9:53am

So in 1951 you lived in the desert just around the corner from where I grew up , except I wasn't there until 1953 at the ripe and smelly age of 1.I think I was considering buying a house out in the same patch of desert you grew up in. Your Dad might of known a Bob Dollins, he worked at Northrop for a short while . What year did you depart?

Guest said March 24, 2011 4:05pm

Oh I lost this one, found it!!!

Guest said April 20, 2010 6:51am

I love this track, and Ms Taylor's voice.

lam said November 19, 2009 7:49pm

Nice song..

Guest said November 19, 2009 4:33pm

Who is the lady with the beautiful voice? This song is wonderful.

tim mcfate said March 9, 2009 10:18am

wow this is different from what i have heard. again i am finding myself surprized and wanting to hear the next tim

Guest said January 20, 2009 4:01am

can you still get a copy of the recording of sweet rain by texas water? I did not see it on the soundtrack for vanishing? Please let me know-email me at tmwalton68@yahoo.com

Guest said December 18, 2008 11:54am

Beautiful song.

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