Buy For Me the Rain

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.