Is there a chant to bring rain back?

Portland, Seattle, Portland.

Repeat three times and you will get rain or dickhead ghost.

You could try rain sticks.

Here in Chicago you start singing the Cubs are gonna win today while washing your car. It will rain hard within 12 hours every time.

I’ve heard it said by acquaintances of mine, who happen to be of Native American heritage, that the act of washing one’s car is, by itself, the white man’s rain dance.

@Cruiser maybe the lack of rain these past few years from El Niño require the additional unlikelihood of the Cubs winning!

@Yetanotheruser We already have that by adding in the Bears. I washed my car yesterday and we have 3–5 inches of snow coming tomorrow….I am so not surprised.

Watch the movie “The Rainmaker.” Perhaps there’s one in there. Otherwise, wash your car or plan a picnic.

@Cruiser Four weeks until Opening Day! Hooray!!! I can’t wait.

“It’s such a lovely day! Let’s have a picnic!”

Navajo rain chant

Sun, sun, why steal the show?
We know you’ll be back tomorrow.
All the South West wants to know:
When will rain from dark skies flow?

Sun, sun, go away. Come again another day.

Make a bonfire and dance naked in the moonlight until a ring appears around the moon.
@YARNLADY and I only live about 40 miles from each other, yes, we need more rain!

Look to the sky and chant:

Goddess, bring the rain down. Give life to the ground. Energy to feed the seed. Bring Mother Natures gifts to me. God, bring the rain down. Give life to the ground. Energy to feed the seed. And a healthy harvest, please bring. So mote it be!

@YARNLADY I actually suggest you encourage @Coloma to have a couple of brownies and do this in your stead, given your locations.

Here are instructions on how to do a Native American rain dance. Mention is made of a song that accompanies the dance, but the words are not given.

Forget the chanting. Get some cannon. Nice big howitzers. Napoleon and other generals of the past have noticed that after a major barrage, it rains (Waterloo became a mudhole on day 2). The Boers, agrarian Christian fundamentalists of the first order, used cannon to create rain until their religious beliefs stopped them. It was decided in their parliament in the 1870’s that forcing an act of god by human means was a sin and they outlawed using cannon to make rain.

@Jak Thank you for that link. Very nice.

“I think I will wash the car today and hang my laundry out to air dry”.