bobhardee wrote:3.29/2018
A pleasure to listen to Santana virtuosity.
Thanks Bob for all your contributions to this thread
Love from me
mudra
bobhardee wrote:3.29/2018
bobhardee wrote:Madra
Below are the words to "Have you ever seen the rain". Until your post, I have always associated it as an anti-war song sung by CCR during the peak of the Vietnam war. In my mind, it was a very mild protest presentation that never mentioned the war by name. I am not sure who Willie is doing the duet with on the above version, but it sure is pretty.
When I was a kid whenever it rained when the sun was out, my Mom would say " the devil's beating his wife." It was her way of saying something bad is going to happen or maybe something bad is happening. She never said much more than that and being a kid, I never asked what it meant or if the devil really had a wife. I wish I had. Whenever she would get mad at Dad she would remind me or my sister that he "don't drink, smoke, gamble, or hit me or you kids. It was her way of looking on the good side and just maybe it was a reference to men who do beat their wives for no good reason. The devil's beatin' his wife........
I think this song is much more global than what I have written here. It would be nice to hear something from John Fogerty who wrote the song as to his thoughts about it.
Someone told me long ago
That's a calm before the storm
I know it been coming' for some time
When it's over so they say
It'll rain a sunny day
I know shinning" down like water.
Chorus
I want to know
Have you ever seen the rain?
I want to know
Have you ever seen the rain?
Comin" down on a sunny day?
Yesterday and days before
Sun is cold and rain is hard
I know been that way for all my time
Till forever, on it goes
Through the circle, fast and slow,
I don't know it can't stop, I wonder
Chorus
Repeat Chorus
Thanks for all of your post.
Take care
Bob H.
Here's the song I want sung at my funeral.