Kentucky Rain

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

Searching for you

In the cold Kentucky rain, whoa

In the cold Kentucky rain

Showed your photograph to some old gray bearded men

Sitting on a bench outside a general store

They said "Yes, she's been here"

But their memory wasn't clear

"Was it yesterday, no, wait, the day before?"

Well, I finally got a ride

With a preacher man who asked

"Where you bound on such a cold dark afternoon?"

And we drove on through the rain

As he listened, I explained

And he left me with a prayer

That I'd find you

Kentucky rain keeps pouring down

And up ahead's another town that I'll be walking through

With the rain in my shoes

Searching for you

In the cold Kentucky rain, whoa

In the cold Kentucky rain, oh

In the cold Kentucky rain