![]() ![]() The gentle rain that [G7} falls for [C} yearsĪnd [F}rain keeps falling like [C}helpless tearsĪnd what have they done to the rain?Īnd rain keeps falling like helpless tears (Incidentally, Reynolds also wrote Little Boxes, a song popularized by Pete Seeger and others.)Ĭlick the button below for a fingerpicking pattern for this song. Like Dylan's "Blowin' in the Wind", this protest song has aged better than most. Kennedy signed a treaty against aboveground testing. A year after the song was written, President John F. The song was written in 1962 by Malvina Reynolds as part of a campaign to stop aboveground nuclear testing, which released strontium-90 into the air, where it was washed down with the rain, settling on the grass, which was then eaten by the cows, and ultimately ended up in the milk that children drank. I think we were vaguely aware that the song had a message but, more than that, we just liked singing this lovely song. (It was a horseback riding camp and that's all we did there.) "What Have They Done to the Rain,?" reminds me of those times-a song about rain for rainy days. At camp when I was a kid, we had singalongs on rainy days when we couldn't go and outside ride horses. ![]()
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