Why Don’t It Rain?
I don’t ask very much of life. I’m satisfied it seems
To work and slave each long day thru
And spend each night in dreams.
There’s one thing I can’t understand
And it don’t seem quite fair
For days the plains have needed rain
Is something wrong up there?
Blazin’ sunshine every day, open ranges seem to say
Soon we’ll wither and decay our life away
Why don’t it rain?
See that little creature hurry to the shade.
He don’t know. I see him there,
Tiny feet all blistered, but he don’t seem afraid.
Guess I better tell him to beware
There’s a vulture in the sky, and he knows the reason why
Everything will surely die, and so will I.
(Read by Wayne Austin.)
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