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[Verse 1]
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Buy for me the rain, my darling, buy for me rain
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Buy for me the crystal pools that fall upon the plain
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And I'll buy for you a rainbow, and a million pots of gold
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Buy it for me now, babe, before I am too old ( I am too old)

[Instrumental]
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[Verse 2]
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Buy for me the sun, my darling, buy for me the sun
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Buy for me the light that falls when day has just begun
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And I'll buy for you a shadow to protect you from the day
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Buy it for me now, babe, before I go away-ay-ay.

[Instrumental]
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[Verse 3]
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Buy for me the robin, darling, buy for me the wing.
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Buy for me a sparrow, or most any flying thing.
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And I'll buy for you a tree, my love, where a robin's nest may grow
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Buy it for me now, babe, the years all hurry so (they hurry so)

[Instrumental]
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[Verse 4]
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I cannot buy you happiness, I cannot buy you years.
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I cannot buy you happiness, in place of all the tears.
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But I can buy for you a gravestone, to lay behind your head
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Gravestones cheer the living, dear, they're no use
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to the dead

[Instrumental]
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[Outro]
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