《Daddy Just Wants It To Rain》歌词

歌曲： Daddy Just Wants It To Rain

所属专辑：Vermillion

歌手： Continental Drifters

时长： 07:49

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Daddy Just Wants It To Rain - Continental Drifters[00:00:00]

Written by：Continental Drifters[00:00:06]

Daddy was the eldest of ten[00:00:13]

And my mama was an only child[00:00:16]

She must've represented back then[00:00:20]

The part of him that couldn't go wild[00:00:23]

She was free[00:00:27]

Something he could never be[00:00:31]

'Cause daddy was the one[00:00:35]

Always took responsibility[00:00:37]

They met at a USO dance hall[00:00:47]

At the start of the second world war[00:00:49]

She was gentle kind and intelligent[00:00:53]

Something daddy'd never known before[00:00:57]

And they danced[00:01:01]

Later on came the romance[00:01:05]

'Cause daddy shipped out[00:01:08]

Before he had the chance to ask for her hand[00:01:10]

But it all turned out all right[00:01:19]

And he would lay in his hammock at night[00:01:23]

Dreaming of a family and home[00:01:27]

With the woman that he left behind[00:01:30]

At night his shipmates would go check out the bars[00:01:34]

But daddy'd just stare at the stars[00:01:38]

And dream of her[00:01:44]

'Til he thought he might lose his mind[00:01:45]

They got married on VE day[00:02:01]

By the preacher from my mama's church[00:02:04]

Mama'd always dreamed of a honeymoon[00:02:08]

But daddy had to go back to work[00:02:11]

He plowed those fields[00:02:15]

Since the navy never taught him a trade[00:02:18]

Mama'd make his lunch[00:02:23]

And they'd eat it out in the shade[00:02:24]

The boys were born in the fifties[00:03:07]

George Herman and me[00:03:10]

And we grew up wanting for nothing[00:03:14]

'Til George saw his first TV[00:03:17]

It was the Christmas of 1959[00:03:21]

There was a console in the living room[00:03:24]

Well mama and the boys watched variety shows[00:03:28]

And daddy just stared out at the moon[00:03:32]

The drought hit hard in the sixties[00:03:40]

And the irrigation couldn't control[00:03:43]

Mama sighed when they sold the farm[00:03:47]

But daddy lost a piece of his soul[00:03:50]

He said hard work is a virtue[00:03:54]

And you should always work as hard as you can[00:03:58]

He said hard work will never hurt you[00:04:01]

But he never said nothing about the land[00:04:04]

Yeah but mama always told us boys[00:04:12]

You should follow the golden rule[00:04:16]

Always look for the good in the other guy[00:04:20]

But never be anyone's fool[00:04:23]

Then daddy'd laugh a little[00:04:27]

Then he'd look out at his weather vane[00:04:31]

Oh mama wants a rainbow[00:04:37]

Daddy just wants it to rain[00:04:39]

They moved in with Herman's family[00:05:01]

In the nice part of the city[00:05:03]

Mama'd help Gina with the grandchildren[00:05:08]

And tried to make the house look pretty[00:05:11]

But daddy'd sit at his window[00:05:15]

From when he got up 'til he went to bed[00:05:18]

Just knowing that he'd failed his family[00:05:22]

He couldn't get it out of his head[00:05:25]

It was the summer of 1978[00:05:34]

When mama caught pneumonia and died[00:05:37]

Daddy lost his will to live that fall[00:05:43]

Now they're buried side by side[00:05:46]

And in the midst of all our grief[00:05:50]

George said to our relief[00:05:54]

Well mama got her rainbow[00:05:59]

And it's starting to rain[00:06:02]

He said mama got her rainbow[00:06:06]

And it's starting to rain[00:06:09]

And it's starting to rain[00:06:12]

It's starting to rain[00:06:16]

It's starting to rain[00:06:24]

It's starting to rain[00:06:31]

It's starting to rain[00:06:38]

It's starting to rain[00:06:45]

It's starting to rain[00:06:53]

It's starting to rain to rain rain[00:07:00]

To rain[00:07:08]