Raining in Baltimore Cover
One of Lukes favorite songs is Raining in Baltimore by Counting Crows from their first album August and Everything After. Counting Crows is one of his biggest influences from the start of his music career to now. Their first 3 albums and their live across the wire album are what he digs into consistently. These are albums He can always go back and listen to for inspiration for writing songs. The live across the wire albums are probably in Luke’s top 5 favorite albums.
This song is originally mainly played on piano but you can look below for the chords and tablature to play it on guitar.
Counting Crows — RAINING IN BALTIMORE
capo 5th
Am F G E7
This circus is falling down on its knees
Am C G E7
The big top is crumbling down
Am F G E7
It’s raining in Baltimore fifty miles east
Am F G E7
Where you should be, no one’s around
F C
I need a phone call
I need a raincoat
I need a big love
I need a phone call
Am F G E7
These train conversations are passing me by
Am C G E7
And I don’t have nothing to say
Am F G E7
You get what you pay for But I just had no
Am F G
intention of living this way
F C
I need a phone call
I need a plane ride
I need a sunburn
I need a raincoat
G F
And I get no answers
G F
And I don’t get no change
G F C
It’s raining in Baltimore, baby
G C F
But everything else is the same
Am F G E7
There’s things I remember and things I forget
Am C G E7
I miss you I guess that I should
Three thousand five hundred miles away
But what would you change if you could?
F C
I need a phone call Maybe I should buy a new car
I can always hear a freight train If I listen real hard
And I wish it was a small world
Because I’m lonely for the big towns
I’d like to hear a little guitar
I think it’s time to put the top down
I need a phone call
I need a raincoat