G C Cm Bb

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

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

[Verse]
C              Bb              F
Buy for me the robin, darling, buy for me the wing.
C            F
Buy for me a sparrow, almost any flying thing.
F                                     G
And I'll buy for you a tree, my love, where a robin's 

nest may grow.
C             Gm             F               Bb
Buy it for me now, babe, the years all hurry so.
            C
(they hurry so.)

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