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Have You Ever Seen The Rain chords by Creedence Clearwater Revival

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Have You Ever Seen The Rain | Chords + Lyrics

Intro

| Am | F/C | C/G |
| G (A G E D G) | C | C (C B A A G E) |

Verse 1

| C | C | C | C |
Someone told me long ago, there’s a calm before the storm.
| G | G | C | C |
I know, it’s been comin’ for some time.
| C | C | C | C |
When it’s over so they say, it’ll rain a sunny day.
| G | G | C | C |
I know shinin’ down like water.

Chorus 1

||: F | G | C Csus2/B | Am7 C/G :||
I want to know, have you ever seen the rain?
I want to know, have you ever seen the rain
| F | G | C | C (C B A A G E) |
Comin’ down on a sunny day?

Verse 2

Yesterday and days before, sun is cold and rain is hard.
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.

Chorus 2

I want to know, have you ever seen the rain?
I want to know, have you ever seen the rain
Comin’ down on a sunny day? Yeah!

Chorus 3

I want to know, have you ever seen the rain?
I want to know, have you ever seen the rain
| F | G | C | C (A G E D G) | C |
Comin’ down on a sunny day?

Have You Ever Seen The Rain Chords: Learn the progressions

The classic Creedence tune, Have You Ever Seen The Rain, is pretty much as easy as it gets. Playing it that is, writing something this simple and timeless is another kettle of fish!

Let’s take a look at the chords and progressions of this perfect beginner song.

The intro is played using a chord that doesn’t appear in the same way again, very unexpected. The bass lines, however, have planted a seed in our minds. These are the chords:

You can incorporate the bass lines (shown above in brackets) in the open G chord, starting on string 3, and then lower in the open C chord, starting on string 5.

To see exactly how to do this, check the TAB part of this lesson: Have You Ever Seen The Rain – Guitar Lesson with TAB.

Once the verse kicks in it’s the I – V chords, like this:

||: C (I) | C | C | C |
| G (V) | G | C | C :||

In verse 2, the bass line is included once, like this:

| G | G | C | C (C B A A G E) |

The chorus is the IV – V – I. Then move down using I/7 – VI – I/5. Repeat this, the third time, just stay on chord I, like this:

||: F (IV) | G (V) | C (I) Csus2/B | Am7 (VI) C/G (I/5) :||
| F | G | C | C (C B A A G E) |

In chorus 3, the final line has the other bass line from the intro, like this:

| F (IV) | G (V) | C (I) | C (A G E D G) | C |

Here’s a chord chart I made for you. Use this to remember Have You Ever Seen The Rain’s chords on a gig.

Have You Ever Seen The Rain Chord Chart | PDF + iReal Pro

I tried something new in the chord chart for Have You Ever Seen The Rain. Instead of writing the bass line as letters (G chord would be A G E D G), I instead wrote the intervals (9R65R).

This is much better for two reasons:

It is more musical as you should as often as possible think of what you’re doing in intervals
If you change the key, you would have to manually change that bass line as it’s written in text, not as chords

Should you want to download this chart, here’s a PDF: Have You Ever Seen The Rain Chord Chart PDF.

This chart was created using iRealPro, here’s a link to that file: Have You Ever Seen The Rain iReal Pro. Using this and the iRealPro app, you can change the key.

Have You Ever Seen The Rain was about the band’s imminent breakup!

When first released in 1971, Creedence was at the peak of its success with all the big hits already released.

The reviews coming in hailed it as having serious undertones about how the idealism of the ‘60s had faded and that now as we had entered the ‘70s, we just didn’t believe in anything.

In a way this was true, although it wasn’t about the world or America, it was actually about how the band internally had developed.

John himself later said the tune was about how even though the band members had everything they’d ever dreamt of, the members were depressed. The following year the band split.

Even though they released a few more tunes as singles, Have You Ever Seen The Rain would be CCR’s last big hit.

Covers of Creedence’s last big hit include those of Johnny Cash, Joan Jett, Willie Nelson, Rod Stewart, and most notably Bonnie Tyler who charted with her version in 1983.

As late as 2018, a music video was released to celebrate the band’s 50th anniversary

You can check it out in the playlist above alongside live recordings and aforementioned cover versions.

Have You Ever Seen The Rain? Chords | Related Pages

Have You Ever Seen The Rain | Guitar Lesson + TAB

In this guitar lesson, we look at how to combine the bass and guitar into just one acoustic guitar part for Have You Ever Seen The Rain, using TAB of course.

| C | C | C | C |
Someone told me long ago, there’s a calm before the storm…

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Creedence Clearwater Revival tunes

Creedence Clearwater Revival wrote Have You Ever Seen The Rain.

One of the best ways to create contrast in songs is to use opposite messages in the music and lyrics.

John Fogerty, the lead singer, and songwriter of Creedence Clearwater Revival is a master of this technique, perhaps the perfect example is Bad Moon Rising.

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About me | Dan Lundholm

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