Chords for Who'll Stop The Rain- Cosmo's Factory/Fogerty's Factory

[Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _
Oh, hi everybody.
Here we are looking out my back door.
I'm about to do a song that
_ had an interesting [Abm] origin, I guess you'd say.
You know, they _ called me up to play at Woodstock
way [Bb] back in _ 1969.
It was kind of the spring of [Abm] 69.
I said, hey John, why don't you bring
Creedence up [Bb] to Woodstock?
I said, well sure man.
I tell you what, just give us a good
spot on the bill.
The fella says, hey, [Abm] 9 o'clock, Saturday night, that's prime time
fella.
I said, alright, we'll [Bb] be there.
_ What he didn't tell me was, _ you're gonna follow
the grateful dead. _
[Eb] _ _ Anyway, _ [Abm] we got there on Saturday, August 16, 1969.
I walked around
a little bit.
You know, [Bb] there were half a million people, kids mostly, out there watching
the show.
_ _ [E] By 6 o'clock I started to get a little nervous [Gm] because I knew I was supposed
to go on at 9 o'clock [G] and there were [E] still five more bands had to play before the grateful
[Bb] dead.
Well, sure enough, 9 o'clock came, 10 [E] o'clock, 11 o'clock.
Finally the grateful dead
went on about midnight.
They [Gm] started playing, you know, that jingly [Bb] jangly tie-dye patchouli
hip smoker reefer _ far out thing that they do.
_ It was cool.
[G] About 45 minutes into it,
dead silence. _
Nobody quite knew what was going on, but there was an hour of silence while
the dead was up on stage. _ _ _ _
_ Years later, we found out that what happened was the grateful
dead had all taken LSD just as they walked up on stage at Woodstock in front of half
a million people.
_ Well, anyway, up on stage it sounded something like this.
_ Hey Jerry!
_ _ Yeah man? _
[B] Where's my guitar?
_ _ I don't know.
_ _ After an hour, they got things plugged [E] in
again and they started playing again.
The dead played another 45 minutes and they were
done.
I came running out on [F] stage ready to set the world on fire.
It [B] was 2.30 in the
morning people.
_ I looked down here and I saw a lot of kids who looked [E] just like me, _ except
_ they were naked _ [Bb] _ _
and they were asleep.
_ _ The grateful dead had put half a million people
to sleep.
_ _ _ Now, _ it had been my ambition to play a really great set for all those folks
and have a really high watermark [Abm] for my musical [Bb] career, you might say.
But the fact that [Abm] they
were all asleep was kind of frustrating.
So I got to rocking and rolling.
Oh, good
golly, Miss Molly, keep on chooglin'.
But they just weren't [Bb] stirring out there.
It was
kind of a tough deal.
Finally, I went up to the mic and said, well, we just want you to
have a good time.
We're playing our hearts out up here for you.
Hope you're enjoying
this.
Way out in the darkness, some guy's flicking his lighter and I hear him say, don't
worry about it, John.
We're with you. _ _
_ _ _ _ So I played the whole rest of my big Woodstock
set for that guy.
_ Then I went home and I wrote this song.
[G] _ _ _ _ _
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Here we go. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ As long as I remember _ [C] the rain that's [G] coming down
_ _ Like a mistress _ poet, _ [C] she'll get on [G] the mound
_ _ [C] Good men [G] truly hate to _ [C] _ fight [G] upon a shrine
And [C] _ I wonder, [D]
still I wonder, [Em] who stopped [G] the rain? _ _ _ _ _
I went down to Virginia, _ [C] she could tell me why
[G] _ _ _ _
I'd heard a pen [Bm] and a paper, _ [C] I was a coward [G] wrong
_ _ [C]
I'd hear [G] plans and do good, _ [C]
but I've been down [G] in chains
_ [C]
And I wonder, [D] still I wonder, [Em]
who stopped [G] the rain? _ _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ [G] _ [D] _ _
_ _ _ [Am] _ _ [C] _ _ [Em] _
_ _ [Gbm] _ [G] _ _ _ I _ _ _ heard the singers playing _ [C] from out here [G] in the mold
And the crowd rushed [Bm]
together, _ [C] they tried to [G] keep warm
_ _ [C] Still the rain [G] kept falling, _ _ [C] falling on [G] my ears
_ [C] And I wonder, [D] still I [Em] wonder, who stopped the rain?
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ [Em] _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _