{"id":1122,"date":"2021-05-10T06:11:04","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T06:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=1122"},"modified":"2026-03-13T23:16:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T23:16:12","slug":"wholl-stop-the-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wholl-stop-the-rain\/","title":{"rendered":"Who&#8217;ll Stop the Rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/UXCitSWQ0vw\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/ukulele3.png\" width=\"130\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>by John Fogarty &amp; CCR :: Key of C :: <input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='69ea79ed070ec0085656843' value='69ea79ed070ec0085656843'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-69ea79ed070ec0085656843' value='Show More'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-69ea79ed070ec0085656843' value='Show Less'><button id='bg-showmore-action-69ea79ed070ec0085656843' class='bg-showmore-plg-button bg-orange-button  '   style=\" color:#4a4949;\">Show More<\/button><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-69ea79ed070ec0085656843' ><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size: 18pt\"><strong>Group leader John Fogerty wrote this song. The song is often interpreted as a protest of the Vietnam War (like Fortunate Son), but when he performed it at the Arizona state fair in 2012, Fogerty told the crowd that he had been at Woodstock, watching the rain come down.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size: 18pt\"><\/div><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\"><strong>[C] Long as I remember, the [F] rain been comin&#8217; [C] down.\u00a0 &#8211; &#8211; [C] Clouds of myst&#8217;ry [Em] pourin&#8217; &#8211; con-[F]- fusion on the [C]\u00a0 ground. &#8211; &#8211; [F] Good men through the [C] ages, [F] tryin&#8217; to find the [C] sun; &#8211; &#8211; [F] And I wonder, [G] still I wonder, [Am] who&#8217;ll stop the rain.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\"><strong>[C] I went down Virginia, seekin&#8217; [F] shelter from the [C] storm. &#8211; &#8211; [C] Caught up in the [Em] fable, I [F] watched the tower [C] grow. &#8211; &#8211;\u00a0 [F] Five year plans and new [C] deals, [F] wrapped in golden [C] chains. &#8211; &#8211; [F] And I wonder, [G] still I wonder, [Am] who&#8217;ll stop the rain.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>BREAK\u00a0 [ F C G ]\u00a0\u00a0 [Dm F Am] \u00a0 [G C]<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>Break only for players that know the real arrangement<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">[C] Heard the singers playin&#8217; &#8211; &#8211; [F] how we cheered for [C] more. &#8211; &#8211; [C] The crowd had rushed to-[Em]-gether, [F] tryin&#8217; to keep [C] warm. &#8211; &#8211; [F] Still the rain kept [C] pourin&#8217;, [F] fallin&#8217; on my [C] ears. &#8211; &#8211; <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">[F] And I wonder, [G] still I wonder, [Am] who&#8217;ll stop the rain.\u00a0 (let Am trail off)<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by John Fogarty &amp; CCR :: Key of C :: [C] Long as I remember, the [F] rain been comin&#8217; [C] down.\u00a0 &#8211; &#8211; [C] Clouds of myst&#8217;ry [Em] pourin&#8217; &#8211; con-[F]- fusion on the [C]\u00a0 ground. &#8211; &#8211; [F] Good men through the [C] ages, [F] tryin&#8217; to find &hellip; <span class=\"more-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wholl-stop-the-rain\/\" class=\"more-link\">CLICK TO VIEW SONG<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Who&#8217;ll Stop the Rain<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[120,133,126,265,13,56,116,117,131,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-perflive","category-baritone-bill","category-bass-guitar-night","category-best-songs","category-x-bill-chase","category-country-western","category-live-baritone","category-live-piano","category-power-outage","category-uke-juke"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30278,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122\/revisions\/30278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}