Have You Ever
Seen The Rain?
ROD STEWART
songwriter:
Jonh Fogerty
country: u. k.
ALBUM: PENDULUM
LABEL: FANTASY
GENRE: roots ROCK
YEAR: 1971
Sir
Roderick David Stewart CBE (born 10 January 1945) is
a British rock and pop singer, songwriter and record producer. With his
distinctive raspy singing voice, Stewart is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, having sold over 250 million records worldwide. He has
had ten number-one albums and 31 top ten singles in the UK, six of which reached number one. Stewart has had 16 top
ten singles in the US, with four reaching number one on the Billboard Hot 100. He was knighted in the 2016
Birthday Honours for services to music and charity.
"HAVE YOU EVER SEEN THE RAIN?" IS A SONG
WRITTEN BY John Fogerty and released as a single in 1971 from the album Pendulum
(1970) by roots rock group Creedence Clearwater Revival. The song charted
highest in Canada, reaching number one on the RPM 100 national album chart in
March 1971. In the U.S., it peaked at number eight on the Billboard
Hot 100 singles chart in the same year. On Cash Box pop chart, it peaked
at number three. Billboard co-listed the b-side "Hey
Tonight". In the UK, it reached number 36. It was the group's eighth
gold-selling single.
Some have speculated that the song's lyrics
are referencing the Vietnam War,
with the "rain" being a metaphor for bombs falling from the sky. In
his review for Allmusic website, Mark Deming suggests that the song is about the idealism of
the 1960s and about how it faded in the wake of events such as the Altamont Free Concert and the Kent State shootings,
and that Fogerty is saying that the same issues of the 1960s still existed in
the 1970s but that people were no longer fighting for them. However, Fogerty
himself has said in interviews and prior to playing the song in concert that it
is about rising tension within CCR and the imminent departure of his brother Tom from the band. In an interview, Fogerty stated that the song was written
about the fact that they were on the top of the charts, and had surpassed all
of their wildest expectations of fame and fortune. They were rich and famous,
but somehow all of the members of the band at the time were depressed and
unhappy; thus the line "Have you ever seen the rain, coming down on a
sunny day?". The band split up in October the following
year after the release of the álbum Mardi Gras.
In a literal sense the song describes a sunshower such in the lyric "It'll rain a sunny day" and the chorus
"have you ever seen the rain Comin' down on a sunny day?". These
events are particularly common in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, but less
common in other parts of the country, due to localized atmospheric wind shear
effects. In Southern regional dialect, there is even a term for it: "the
devil beating his wife".
John Fogerty released a live version of the
song on his The Long Road Home - In Concert DVD which was recorded at the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles, California,
on September 15, 2005.
Someone
told me long ago
There's
a calm before the storm
I
know
It's
been coming for some time
When
it's over, so they say
It'll rain a sunny day
I
know
Shinin'
down like water
I
wanna know
Have
you ever seen the rain?
I wanna know
Have you ever seen the rain
Comin' down on a sunny day?
Yesterday and days before
Sun is cold and rain is hot
I know
Been that way for all my time
'Til forever, on it goes
Through the circle, fast and slow
I know
It can't stop, I wonder
I wanna know
Have
you ever seen the rain?
I wanna know
Have you ever seen the rain
Comin' down on a sunny day?
Yeah!
I
wanna know
Have
you ever seen the rain?
I wanna know
Have you ever seen the rain
Comin' down on a sunny day?
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