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Something In The Rain - Tish Hinojosa

from When We Stand Together by Magpie

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Tish Hinojosa’s stirring and touching song portrays, through one tight-knit family and in the voice of a young boy, the hardships and dangers faced by migrant farm laborers. While doing the labor that puts food on all our tables, these hard-working people and their families are exposed to the dangerous agricultural chemicals that are still used by the big, corporate food growers.

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Mom and dad have worked the fields I don’t know how many years
I’m just a boy but I know how
And go to school when work is slow We have seen our country’s roads, Bakersfield to Illinois
And when troubles come our way Oh yeah, I’ve seen my daddy pray

There’s something wrong with little sister I hear her cryin’ by my side
Mama’s shakin’ as she holds her
We try to hold her through the night Mom says, “Close your eyes, mijito, Dream of someplace far from here
Like the pictures in your school books. Someday you can take us there.”
There must be something in the rain I’m not sure what that means Abuelita talks of sins of man,
Of dust that’s in our hands

There must be something in the rain
Well, what else could cause this pain
Those airplanes cure the plants so things can grow Oh no, there must be something in the rain.

Little sister’s gone away
Mama’s workin’ long again
And me, I think I understand
About our life, about our land
Well, talkers talk and dreamers dream I will find a place between
I’m afraid but I believe
That we can change these hurting fields.

Because there’s something in the rain But there’s more here in our hands ‘Buelita’ s right about the sins of man Whose profits rape the land
And the rains are pouring down From the growers to the town
And until we break the killing chains There’s something in the rain.

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from When We Stand Together, released July 23, 2022
words and music by Tish Hinojosa

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