The Day The Rains Came Song Lyrics and Chords by Merle Haggard
The Day The Rains Came
Written and Recorded by Merle Haggard
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Your strange love was what I
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found
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day the rains came
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And I remember we found shelter in the
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cave
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rain clouds up
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above
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darkness we found
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love
The day the rains came I became your
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slave
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rains made rivers
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swell
I fell
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deeper in your
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spell
You took my hand and handed me your
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crown
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I could just live
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on
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these things I have
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I know that I'd be glad of what I'd
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rains made rivers
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swell
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deeper in your
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crown
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I could just live
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these things I have
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I know that I'd be glad of what I'd
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found
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day the rains came
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FAQ
Who sang the the song The Day The Rains Came?
- The song The Day The Rains Came was sang by Merle Haggard.
Who is Merle Haggard?
- Merle Ronald Haggard (April 6, 1937 - April 6, 2016) was an American country singer, songwriter, guitarist, and fiddler.
Haggard was born in Oildale, California, during the Great Depression. His childhood was troubled after the death of his father, and he was incarcerated several times in his youth. After being released from San Quentin State Prison in 1960, he managed to turn his life around and launch a successful country music career. He gained popularity with his songs about the working class that occasionally contained themes contrary to anti-Vietnam War sentiment of some popular music of the time. Between the 1960s and the 1980s, he had 38 number-one hits on the US country charts, several of which also made the Billboard all-genre singles chart. Haggard continued to release successful albums into the 2000s.
He received many honors and awards for his music, including a Kennedy Center Honor (2010), a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (2006), a BMI Icon Award (2006), and induction into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame (1977), Country Music Hall of Fame (1994) and Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame (1997). He died on April 6, 2016—his 79th birthday—at his ranch in Shasta County, California, having recently suffered from double pneumonia.
