Something In The Rain

Something in the Rain -Tish Hinojosa

Written by ：Tish Hinojosa

Mom and dad have worked the fields

I don't know how many years

I'm just a boy but I know how

And go to school when work is slow

We have seen our country's roads

Bakersfield to Illinois

And when troubles come our way

Oh yeah I've seen my daddy pray

There's something wrong with little sister

I hear her crying by my side

Mama's shaking as she holds her

We try to hold her through the night

And mom says close you eyes mijito

Dream of someplace far from here

Like the pictures in your schoolbooks

Someday you can take us there

There must be something in the rain

I'm not sure just what that means

Angelita talks of sins of man

Of dust that's in our hands

There must be something in the rain

Well what else could cause this pain

Those airplanes cure the plants so things can grow

Oh no it must be something in the rain

Little sister's gone away

Mama's working long again

And me I think I understand

About our life about our land

Well talkers talk and dreamers dream

I will find a place between

I'm afraid but I believe

That we can change these hurting fields

'Cause there's something in the rain

But there's more here in our hands

Buelita's right about the sins of man

Who's profits rape the land

And the rains are pouring down

From the growers to the towns

And until we break the killing chains

There's something in the rain