It Ain't Gonna Rain No Mo'
(original version)
Words & Music:
Wendall Hall
Wow. Find one recording and you are
introduced to a whole new set of takes on a simple song. This is the version I transcribed form
the Wendall Hall 1920s recording (believed to be 1923 or 1924) I found. I've also included some of the many
lyric variations below. Have fun!
The butterfly flits on wings
of gold and the June Bug wings of flame.
The bedbug has no wings at
all, but it gets there just the same.
CHORUS:
C
Oh, it ain't gonna rain no
more, no more.
G7
It ain't gonna rain no more.
G7
But how in the world can the
old folks tell
G7
C
It ain't a-gonna rain no mo'?
Well, a bullfrog sittin' on a
lily pad, lookin' up at the sky.
The old lily pad broke and the
frog fell in, water all in his eye.
CHORUS:
Oh, the mosquito, he fly high,
mosquito, he fly low.
If old Mr. Skeeter light on
me, he ain't a-gonna fly no mo'.
CHORUS:
Say, I saw a sign in a
hardware store: "Boy wanted, sixteen years".
Now, that's too long to wait
for a boy, it brings eyes to my tears.
CHORUS:
Well, I went to call on Susie
and she met me at the door.
Her shoes & stockings in
her hand and her feet all over the floor.
CHORUS:
Well, a man laid down by the
sewer, um-hmm, & by the sewer, he died.
Now, at the coroner's inquest,
um-hmm, they called it "Sewer-cide".
CHORUS:
Well, little black & white
animal out in the woods; now, ain't that little cat pretty?
Well, I went right over to
pick it up, but it wasn't that kind of a kitty.
CHORUS:
Additional lyric variations for "It Ain't Gonna Rain
No Mo'"
CHORUS VARIATIONS:
It ain't gonna rain no mo' no
mo', It ain't gonna rain no mo'.
But how in the heck can you
wash your neck if it ain't gonna rain no mo'.
OR:
It isn't going to rain
anymore, anymore, it isn't going to rain anymore,
The grammar's good but the
songs a bore, so we'll sing it like before
VERSE VARIATIONS:
The night was dark and dreary,
and the air was full of leaks(??)
Well the old man stood out in
the storm and his shoes were full of feet.
Well, hereีs a verse about a
man and a trombone. Well, the words to it are few.
He blew, he blew, he blew, he
blew; he blew, he blew, he blew.
The shades of night were
falling fast, when for a kiss he asked her.
She must have answered yes
because the shades came down still faster.
Well, Mary had a brand new
Ford, she liked it very well.
She drove it in to a telephone
pole and now it looks like ... rain
A golf ball sailing through
the air went by a man a humming.
He heard the caddy holler,
"Fore!", and thought three more were comin'.
On mules, we find two legs
behind and two we find before.
We stand behind before we find
what the two behind be for.
Well, Sally had a little mule,
she called him "Gentle Abel".
One day she tried to pull his
tail and he kicked her in the stable.
Peanut sittin' on a railroad
track, it's heart was all a-flutter.
The train came roarin' round
the bend; "WOO! WOO!" -
peanut butter.
OR:
A peanut sittin' on a railroad
track, his heart was all a-flutter.
Along came engine number ten,
"Toot-toot!" - peanut butter.
This song is almost over,
we're goin for a ride
If you want to hear us sing
some more, just play the other side!
Rich man rides in a taxi, poor
man rides on a train,
A hobo he just walks the
tracks, but he gets there just the same.
How much wood could a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
If you put a saw in his tiny
paw, a ton of wood he could!
The provenance of the
attached easy arrangement
is unknown. It is part of a
collection that people gave me over the years. Please inform me if correctly attribute it.