When It Rains It Pours...

I still do better learning to play the ukulele when I compose my own stuff. Guess I don't sound much like Avril Lavigne so things get a bit complicated doin' someone else's stuff...

Here's one I wrote yesterday mornin'.

Oh... I play this on my new baritone ukulele, a bigger instrument than my pinapple ukulele with more of a guitar sound and a bigger fret board for my hands made of meat...

It’s Fixin’ To Rain



G
Grandma passed the other day
C
Died of her age is what they say
D
She died disappointed is what I know
C
Tryin’ to make it on her own
G
(without the help she needed)

G D G
It’s fixin’ to rain

G
Nobody listened to her anymore
C
All they left was the family farm
D
Stopped helping grandma with all of them chores
C
Went to the city and bought new 4-wheelers
G
(and drove ‘em on the freeways)


G
Bring in the laundry
G D G
It’s fixin’ to rain

G
She ran the farm where we all grew
C
On homegrown tomatoes and country stew
D
Kept the lazy men-folk toiling too
C
And the children helped out a little

G
(didn’t hurt a bit)

G
Bring in the laundry
C
Turn off the sprinklers
G
Roll up the windows
G D G
It’s fixin’ to rain


G
Ninety-seven was her official age
C
Though I suspect it was ninety-nine
D
Grandma had some of the biggest guns
C
From chopping wood and milking cows
G
(Scared the hell outta us children)



G
Bring in the laundry
C
Turn off the sprinklers
G
Roll up the windows
D
Pull in the tractor
G
Cover up the hay bales
G D G
It’s fixin’ to rain

G
I’m gonna miss old grandma and her old ways
C
There’s no one round here like her any more
D
We think we’ve won when we’ve grown soft
C
With backsides and bellies all turned to fluff
G
(Grandma’d have none of that stuff)


G
Bring in the laundry
C
Turn off the sprinklers
G
Roll up the windows
D
Pull in the tractor

G
Cover up the hay bales
C
Shutter up the west side
G
Clean out the gutters
G D G
It’s fixin to rain



G
Grandma chased a bear with a chainsaw one night
C
Naked in a sheer nighty under the moonlight
D
Must have given the bear a horrible fright
C
I know it got our attention!
G
(way to go grandma!)

G
Bring in the laundry
C
Turn off the sprinklers
G
Roll up the windows
D
Pull in the tractor
G
Cover up the hay bales
C
Shutter up the west side

G
Clean out the gutters
D
Tarp up the wood pile
G
Pick up all this clutter
C
I’m only gonna ask ya once
G
What’re you waitin’ for?
G D G
It’s fixin’ to rain

G
Grandma didn’t die peacefully
C
She was too busy keeping’ her farm alive
D
And was out the back forty by herself
C
Tending to her bee hives
G
When her heart stopped beating

G
Bring in the laundry
C
Turn off the sprinklers
G
Roll up the windows
D
Pull in the tractor
G
Cover up the hay bales

C
Shutter up the west side
G
Clean out the gutters
D
Tarp up the wood pile
G
Pick up all this clutter
C
Don’t make me ask ya twice!
G
What’re you waitin’ for?

G D G
It’s fixin’ to rain