Buy for me the rain, my darling, buy for me the rain

Buy for me the crystal pools that fall upon the plain

And I'll buy for you a rainbow and a million pots of gold

Buy it for me now, babe, before I am too old Buy for me the sun, my darling, buy for me the sun

Buy for me the light that falls when day has just begun

And I'll buy for you a shadow to protect you from the day

Buy it for me now, babe, before I go away Buy for me the robin, darling, buy for me the wing

Buy for me a sparrow, almost any flying thing

And I'll buy for you a tree, my love, where a robin's nest may grow

Buy it for me now, babe, the years all hurry so I cannot buy you happiness, I cannot by you years

I cannot buy you happiness, in place of all the tears

But I can buy for you a gravestone, to lay behind your head

Gravestones cheer the living, dear, they're no use to the dead