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Radium Rain by Bruce Cockburn Standard Tuning; no capo Taken from a live recording minute from about 6:50 to 12:13: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkEc8bF2Mo0 Chords Bm (barre) X24432 [Note: Bend the F# on the 6th string to transition to the Em] Em 022000 F#m (barre) 244222 (full barre unless you can hook your thumb over to grab the bass root like Bruce does) G (barre) 355433 A5 X022x0 (mostly strumming the 3rd, 4th and 5th strings All chords in the verse are arpeggiated. The Bm uses the middle 4 strings and are played as single ringing notes. The remaining chords he arpeggiates starting with the bass root and most often climbing and descending thru the arpeggion two adjacent strings at a time. Riff: This serves as the intro and throughout the first two lines of each verse. Goes something line as per tab below. He throws in differing pickup notes sometimes at the beginning of the riff and moving from the E to F# in the ascending part of the bass line. e|---------------------------------0-----------2-------| B|--------3-----------3----------0-0-0-------2-2-2-----| G|------4---4-------4---4------0-0---0-0---2-2---2-2---| D|----4-------4---4------------2-------2---4-------4---| A|--2-----------2--------------------------------------| E|------------------------2b-0-----------2-------------| ----------------------- Intro: Riff x 2
BmThey're hosing down trucks at the border Em F#m under a rainbow sign Bm Em F#m BmThe raindrops falling on my head Em F#m burn into my mind Bm Em F#m GOn a hillside in the distance Emthere's a patch of green sunshine
Ain't it a Bmshame A5 Ain't it a Bmshame A5 About the radium rain Bm ---(begin arpeggiated riff again)
Everyday in the paper you can watch the numbers rise No such event can over take us here, we're much too wise In the meantime don't eat anything that grows and don't breathe when the cars go by Ain't it a shame Ain't it a shame About the radium rain Big motorcycle rumbles out of the rain like some creation of mist There's a man on a roof with a blindfold on and a hand grenade in his fist I walk stiff, with teeth clenched tight, filled with nostalgia for a clean wind's kiss Ain't it a shame Ain't it a shame About the radium rain A flock of birds writes something on the sky in a language I can't understand God's graffiti -- but it don't say why so much evil seems to land on man When everyone I meet just wants to live and love, and get along as best they can Ain't it a shame Ain't it a shame About the radium rain