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ruthy go get your brother, go and get some woodgotta build up a fire, get some warmth, god if only we couldfind a place to settle, a place that's warm and dryor maybe we get a chance, children don't you crypa' and the boys are just restless, they'd do any work they couldbut there's 50 to do the work of 10, and my money it ain't no goodtwenty cents an hour, won't buy a loaf o'breadif the winds of fortune don't change, in a week we'll all be deadhere comes, here comes the rainit's everything, that we don't need, oh no, no, no, nooohere comes, here comes the raintake away our hunger, take away our needit was sharon and she was a labor, there's no milk to keep her strongstill the water's rising, we know it won't be longbefore the river brakes the banks, mud and water owerflowcarry away, stillborn child, just no one wants to knowhere comes, here comes the rainit's everything, that we don't need, oh no, no, no, nooohere comes, here comes the raintake away our hunger, take away our greedfarmers in church on sunday, they chant the holy griefLetras de cancionesthey burn their crops on monday, as crops aren't asked for needand the cops with their rifles, they got their stocks of grainthe side of democracy, of profit and of gainand there is no god to hear us, just the thundering of the rainthe only messiah, who can save us now, has a handful of graintomorrow when you find us, we're washed up on the floorthey bury us in a hole and fill it full of mudso here comes, here comes the rainit's everything, that we don't need, oh no, no, no, nooohere comes, here comes the raindon't take away our hunger, take away our greed From Letras Mania