Have You Ever Seen The Rain Chords & Guitar Lesson

Welcome to my Have Your Ever Seen the Rain chord chart. This is a somewhat beginner-intermediate acoustic guitar song that I like doing with my students. What makes it more intermediate is the use of the F barre chord. But I have an easy fix below.

You will also notice in the chart something like this C/B. In this song, you can play what is called a walk down on the bass line. In the Chorus the walk down moves from C to B to A and ends on G in the chorus. If you know how to play a walk-down, great! If not, play on the first chord, not the second note.

Play      Don't Play
C      /      B

So you would play a C chord only.

Have You Ever Seen The Rain Guitar Chords:

If you are not the greatest with barre chords yet, the Fmaj7 makes a great substitute for the F barre chord.

FM7

Have You Ever Seen The Rain Strumming Patterns:

Strumming for Verse:
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
D   DU    U DU

Strumming for Chorus:
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
DU    UDU    U

Check out my video tutorial for more help on strumming this song:

Have You Ever Seen The Rain Guitar Lesson:

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Have You Ever Seen The Rain Chord Chart:

Intro: Am F C G C C  

Verse:
C                                       C
    Someone told me long ago
C                                     C                                G
    There's a calm before the storm,  I know
         G                              C                  C
And it's been coming for some time
C                               C
    When it's over, so they say
C                    C                      G
    It'll rain a sunny day, I know
G                         C                   C
Shining down like water

Chorus:
F                 G                                      
I wanna know
                    |C     C/B|        | Am  C/G|
Have you ever seen the rain
F                  G 
I wanna know
                    |C     C/B|        | Am  C/G|
Have you ever seen the rain
F                     G                               C    C
    Coming down on a sunny day

Verse:
C                                 C
    Yesterday and days before
C                                 C                        G
    Sun is cold and rain is hard, I know
   G                             C                      C
Been that way for all my time
C                              C
'Til forever on it goes
C                            C                            G
Thru the circle fast and slow, I know
G                                  C                     C
And it can't stop, I wonder

Chorus:
F                 G                                      
I wanna know
                    |C     C/B|        | Am  C/G|
Have you ever seen the rain
F                  G 
I wanna know
                    |C     C/B|        | Am  C/G|
Have you ever seen the rain
F                     G                               C    C (hold)
    Coming down on a sunny day

This file is the author’s own work and represents his interpretation of this song. It’s intended solely for private study, scholarship or research.

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