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Box Of Rain

Grateful Dead
(Music by Phil Lesh, Words by Robert Hunter)


[INTRO]
 A  Bm7/A  A  Asus4


  D           Am
Look out of any window
  Em           C
Any morning, any evening, any day
  D         Am
Maybe the sun is shining
  Em                    G                      A
Birds are winging, no rain is falling from a heavy sky
  D           G                Am             Em      D
What do you want me to do, to do for you to see you through?
      C               D                   Am
For this is all a dream we dreamed, one afternoon long ago

  D           Am
Walk out of any doorway
  Em             C                          G
Feel your way, feel your way like the day before
  D            Am
Maybe you'll find direction
  Em
Around some corner where
  G                    A
It's been waiting to meet you

  D            G
What do you want me to do?
     Am                         Em     D
To watch for you while you're sleeeeeeeeping?
       Am                  C                  G           D
Then please don't be surprised when you find me dreaming too.

  D         Am
Look into any eyes
  Em              C                            G
You find by you, you can see clear to another day
  D          Am                  Em
Maybe been seen before through other eyes
      G                     A
On other days while going home
  D            G               Am              Em       D
What do you want me to do, to do for you, to see you through?
       C               Em                D           G
It's all a dream we dreamed, one after-noon long a-go

  D              Am              Em
Walk into splintered sunlight, inch your way through
  C                      G
Dead dreams to another land
  D             Am                    Em
Maybe you're tired and broken, your tongue is twisted with
  G                      A
Words half-spoken and thoughts unclear
  D            G               Am              Em       D
What do you want me to do, to do for you, to see you through?

    Am               C                  G                  D
A box of rain will ease the pain, and love will see you through.
  G                   Am       Em 
Just a box of rain, wind and water
     C               A               D 
Be-lieve it if you need it, if you don't, just pass it on.

  G               Am       Em
Sun and shower, wind and rain
  C               D             Em            A
In and out the window, like a moth before a flame

  A        D            Em
And it's just a box of rain
  Em       G               D
I don't know who put it there;
  D                 Bm          G               A
Believe it if you need it, or leave it if you dare.

  A        D             Em
And it's just a box of rain
  Em     G             D
Or a ribbon for your hair
               Em
Such a long, long time to be gone
        G                 D
And a short time to be there.


[OUTRO]
  D   C   G   D   Asus4



   (A)               (Bm7/A)           (Asus4)            (D)

  o       o         o o   o           o       o           o
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  o       o       o     o o o             o   o         x o o o
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   (Bm)
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