Love, Reign O'er Me
Words & Music:
Peter Townshend
This is from the 1973 album
"Quadrophenia" and is fully transcribed in the November/December 2008
issue of Guitar Edge. The
original guitars were tuned down one-half step (Eb Ab Db Gb Bb Eb), then one capoed
II, while the other was uncapoed (thus playing in different keys - giving the
song an interesting sense of tonality).
I'm putting it in the D-ish version.
Dsus4/D
C(add9)
Only love can make it rain the
way the beach is kissed by the sea.
Dsus4/D
C(add9)
Only love can make it rain
like the sweat of lovers laying in the fields.
CHORUS:
Dm Dsus2 Dm Dsus2 Dm Dsus2 Dm Dsus2
Bb Gm7
Love---------------------------,
reign o'er-- me.
Dm Dsus2 Dm
Dsus2 Bb Gm7 A7sus4 A7
Love--------, reign o'er-- me,
rain on me. Rain on me.
Only love can bring the rain
that makes you yearn to the sky.
Only love can bring the rain
that falls like tears from on high.
CHORUS:
Dm Dsus2 Dm
Dsus2 Bb
Gm7
Love--------, reign o'er-- me,
reign o'er-- me, reign o'er me.
Dm Dsus2
Dm Dsus2 Bb
Gm7 A7sus4 A7
Love--------,reign o'er-- me,
rain on me, rain on me-------------.
BRIDGE:
F
On the dry and dusty road, the
nights we spend apart alone.
F
D
G/D A/D G/D
I need to get back home to
cool, cool rain.
F
I can't sleep and I lay and I
think; the night is hot and black as ink.
F
D G/D A/D G/D
Woo! Oh, God, I need a drink of cool, cool rain.
INSTRUMENTAL OVER:
F |
D G/D A/D G/D | F | D G/D A/D G/D |
Dsus4 C(add9) Dsus4
C(add9)
CHORUS: [with much vocal embellishment]
OUTRO: [after A7 chord, go to Dm and out]