Kentucky Rain
Eddie Rabbit, Richard Heard, 1970· Songs Well-Known in America · p.186
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Seven lonely days and a dozen towns ago,
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I reached out one night and you were gone.
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Don't know why you'd run, what you're running to or from,
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all I know is I want to bring you home.
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So I'm walking in the rain, thumbing for a ride on this
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lonely Kentucky backroad.
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I've loved you much too long and my love's too strong
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to let you go, never knowing what went wrong.
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Kentucky rain keeps pouring down and up ahead's another town
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that I'll go walking thru with the rain in my shoes,
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searchin for you in the cold Kentucky rain,
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in the cold Kentucky rain.
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Showed your photograph to some old gray bearded men
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sitting on a bench outside a general store.
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They said "Yes, she's been here" but their memory wasn't clear,
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was it yesterday, no, wait the day before?
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So I finally got a ride with a preacher man who
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asked: "Where you bound on such a cold dark afternoon?"
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As we drove on thru the rain as he listened
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I explained and he left me with a prayer that I'd find you.
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Kentucky rain keeps pouring down and up ahead's another town
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that I'll go walking thru with the rain in my shoes,
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searchin for you in the cold Kentucky rain,
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in the cold Kentucky rain, in the cold (Repeat and fade)