The Wind And The Rain Chords
by Meat Puppets
The Wind And The Rain by Meat Puppets is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords C, Am, F, G and Em. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Intro: C Am F C G C
C Am
Doesn't it blow so cold and lonely
F C G
Oh, and it's blowin your way
C Am
Thunder roars, the clouds are reeling
F C G C
A thousand shades of gray
Am G
And it falls you see it all
F G F Em G
All that you see
C G
Comes from nowhere
F G
Can't be explained
C G
No one can buy
F G F Em G
The wind and the rain
Whistling wind the stars are shooting
Night is falling somewhere
Gimme a door, I feel like walking
Putting the wind in my hair
As it falls the thunder calls
Calls its own name
Can't be controlled
Can't be contained
No one can buy
The wind and the rain
Throughout the years
Some things remain
No one can buy
The wind and the rain
Throughout the years
Some things remain
No one can buy
The wind and the rain
INTRO
e|-----0----------------------------------1--1-5-3-1-0--0-3-1-0-3--1---------|
b|-1-----3-1-0-1-3----1---1-0-------0-----1----------1----------3----3-0-3-1-|
G|-0------------------2-------2-1-2-------2----------0----------0----------0-|
D|-2------------------2-------------------3----------2----------0----------2-|
A|-3------------------0------------------------------3----------2----------3-|
E|--------------------------------------------------------------3------------|
G|------------------------|
D|------------------------|
A|-3-----0-------3-----3--|
E|----3-----0--1----3-----|
VERSE
G|---------------------------------------------|
D|---------------------------------------------|
A|-3--3p2-0----3--------3--3p2-0----3---3--3---|
E|-----------1----3---------------1---3--------|
Chorus
G|--------------------------------|
D|--------------------------------|
A|-3p2-0--------------------------|
E|--------0-1-3---1-3-1-1-0-3--3--|
G|------------------------------------|
D|------------------------------------|
A|--3--------3------------------------|
E|-----3-1-3----3-1-3-3-1-1-0-0-3--3--|
| / slide up
| \ slide down
| h hammer-on
| p pull-off
| ~ vibrato
| + harmonic
| x Mute note
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