"What Have They Done to the Rain" is a protest song against above-ground nuclear testing written by Malvina Reynolds.
The song has been sung by many singers such as Joan Baez, and a version by the English band The Searchers was released as a single, which charted in the US and UK.
[1][2] Reynolds recorded the song, which was later included in a Smithsonian Folkways compilation album, The Best Of Broadside 1962-1988.
[7] It has been recorded by many other artists including Esther & Abi Ofarim on their album That's Our Song (1965), who also recorded a version in French, "Tout est étrange sous la pluie", the same year,[12] The Seekers, Marianne Faithfull, and Melanie.
[13] The song was recorded by the composer and issued by Columbia on the 1967 album Malvina Reynolds Sings the Truth (reissued on CD by Omni in 2008).