Cliff Richard
Cliff Richard
Cliff Richard & Hank Marvin
Cliff Richard
Cliff Richard
Cliff Richard
Cliff Richard
Cliff Richard
Cliff Richard
Cliff Richard
Cliff Richard
Cliff Richard & Hank Marvin
Cliff Richard
Cliff Richard
“Silvery Rain” describes the disastrous effects pesticides have on the environment. This version was released in 1972, the same year the chemical DDT was banned from agricultural use in the United States.
DDT was primarily used as a spray insecticide, and would often be released over fields via cro...
Butterflies danced on invisible strings
Showing wings they borrowed from a rainbow
And a blackbird on high sang a praise to the sky
While a light aeroplane sprayed the fields with a silvery rain
Furry backed bees with a tireless drone
Never moan, they're happy to be working
And a grasshopper green could be heard but not seen
While a light aeroplane sprayed the fields with a silvery rain
Chorus:
Fly away, Peter, fly away, Paul, before there's nothing left to fly at all
Take to the sky, higher than high, before the silvery rain begins to fall
Nothing moves now but the swaying ripe corn
Not a dawn is greeted with a bird's song
There's a feather or two from a bird that once flew
Before a light aeroplane sprayed the fields with a silvery rain
Chorus
(Instrumental break)
Chorus
Silvery Rain was written by Hank Marvin.
Silvery Rain was produced by Norrie Paramor.
Cliff Richard released Silvery Rain on Fri Mar 26 1971.