California Showers Songtext
von Lightnin’ Hopkins

Just take a look out at the weather
It keep raining all the time
Just take a look out at the weather
It keep raining all the time
You know it be raining this minute and the next minute
You look up and you see sunshine

Tell me why do it rain
When it start in California all the time
Tell me why do it rain
When it start in California all the time
Out of all the rain
But you still have plenty sunshine

You know it keeps on raining
You know this poor man can′t make no time
You know if it keeps on raining
You know this poor man can't make no time
You know if I can′t go to my job
How I'm gonna feed this family of mine?


You know the poor children runnin', "I′m hungry"
When I don′t have a lousy dime
Poor children runnin', cryin′, "Daddy, I'm hungry"
And I don′t have a lousy dime
That's the reason I was singing
When it start raining in California
Why do it keep raining all the time?

You know it was dark and cloudy
Raindrops settled on my windowpane
You know it was dark, it was cloudy
The raindrops settled on my windowpane
You know my children didn′t have nothin' to eat
Now people, ain't that a cryin′ shame?

My poor wife walkin′
Tellin' the children, "Yes, it′s a cryin' shame"
My poor wife walkin′
Tellin' the children, "This a cryin′ shame"
Yeah, we all goin' down in starvation, I do believe
But your daddy ain't to blame

That′s all right, that′s all right
You don't have to worry no more
That′s all right, that's all right
Children, you don′t have to worry no more
You know the sun is shining now
Cool breeze from a sweet wind, how it blow