KENTUCKY RAIN (GEORGE SLADEK & THE MURDOCH AVENUE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA)

Story Behind The Song

EDDIE RABBITT GOT HIS BIG BREAK WHEN ELVIS RECORDED THIS SONG... MY FRIEND, CHRIS JERNIGAN, ASKED ME IF I'D EVER RECORDED "KENTUCKY RAIN"...I HAD AND IT WAS SITTING ON MY HARD DRIVE WAITING TO BE MIXED...BRILLIANT MINDS THINK ALIKE...CHRIS, THANKS FOR PROMPTING ME TO WORK A LITTLE TODAY...

Song Description

EDDIE RABBITT GOT HIS BIG BREAK WHEN ELVIS RECORDED THIS SONG... MY FRIEND, CHRIS JERNIGAN, ASKED ME IF I'D EVER RECORDED "KENTUCKY RAIN"...I HAD AND IT WAS SITTING ON MY HARD DRIVE WAITING TO BE MIXED...BRILLIANT MINDS THINK ALIKE...CHRIS, THANKS FOR PROMPTING ME TO WORK A LITTLE TODAY...

Song Length 3:21 Genre Pop - Easy Listening, Pop - Classic
Tempo Medium (111 - 130) Lead Vocal Male Vocal
Mood Poignant, Moving Subject Heartbreak, Lost Love
Similar Artists Elvis Presley, Neil Diamond Language English
Era 2000 and later

Lyrics

Seven lonely days
And a dozen towns ago
I reached out one night
And you were gone
Don't know why you'd run,
What you're running to or from
All I know is I want to bring you home

So I'm walking in the rain,
Thumbing for a ride
On this lonely Kentucky back road
I've loved you much too long
And my love's too strong
To let you go, never knowing
What went wrong

Kentucky rain keeps pouring down
And up ahead's another town
That I'll go walking through
With the rain in my shoes,
Searchin' for you
In the cold Kentucky rain,
In the cold Kentucky rain

Showed your photograph
To some old gray bearded man
Sitting on a bench
Outside a gen'ral store
They said "Yes, she's been here"
But their memory wasn't clear
Was it yesterday,
No, wait the day before

So I fin'ly got a ride
With a preacher man who asked
"Where you bound on such a cold afternoon?"
As we drove on through the rain
As he listened I explained
And he left me with a prayer
That I'd find you

Lyrics EDDIE RABBITT Music EDDIE RABBITT
Producer GEORGE SLADEK Publisher IMAGEN
Performance GEORGE SLADEK Label ARCH CITY

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