Kentucky Rain
Elvis Presley
(words & music by Eddie Rabbit - Dick Heard)
 

Midi 1(A92)*   Midi 2(C105)
Midi 3(C80)   Midi 4(A92)*-harp
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9 measure lead in
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| Seven lonely days an' a |
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| dozen towns ago, I reached |
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| out one night an' you were | gone. Ah |
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| don't know why you'd ru n, what you're |
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| runnin' to or from, | all I know is | I want to bring yo u |
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| home. |      |
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| Walkin' in the rain, I'm thum | bin' for a ride  on | this lone ly 'tucky back |
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| road. I have | loved you much too long, and | my loves too strong |
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| to let  you go, | never know'n what | went wrong.  |      |

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| Kentucky rain keeps pourin' | down, | an' up ahead's another |
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| town that I'll go | walkin' through - |           with the | rain in my shoes, |           |

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| Searchin' for | yo  u u  u. |  In the cold Kentucky | rain,    | 
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|          In the cold Kentucky | rain.   |      |      |
 
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| Showed your phot'graph to some | old gray-bearded men sittin' |
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| on a bench outside a gen'ral | store. They said "yes, she's been here" - but their |
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| mem'ry wasn't clear. | "Was it yester | day? No, wait th'day  | before!" |       |

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| 'fin'ly got a ride with a | preacher man who asked "where you |
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| bound on such a dark after | noon?" We | drove on through th e rain, he |
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| listened I explained and he | left me with a | prayer that I'd find | y ou.  |      |

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| Kentucky rain keeps pourin' | down | up aheads another town  | that I'll go o |
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| walkin' through. |          With the | rain in my shoes, |           |   searchin' for |
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| yo   u u  u. |   In the cold Kentucky rain,     |        The cold Kentucky rain.     |
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|         In the cold Kentucky  | rain.      |         In the cold Kentucky | rain.    | 
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|    In the cold Kentucky | rain. |    In the cold Kentucky | rain. |  fade out.

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Elvis Presley                                                                                                                             Eddie Rabbitt

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