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[C] [G] [C] [F]
Seven lonely days and a dozen towns ago,
[C] [F] [C] [C7]
I reached out one night and you were gone.
[F] [G] [C] [Am]
Don't know why you'd run, what you're running to or from,
[D7] [G7]
all I know is I want to bring you home.
[C] [G] [C] [F]
So I'm walking in the rain, thumbing for a ride on this
[C] [F] [C] [C7]
lonely Kentucky backroad.
[F] [G] [C] [Am]
I've loved you much too long and my love's too strong
[D7] [G7] [Fmaj7]
to let you go, never knowing what went wrong.
[D7] [C] [Bm] [Em] [Am]
Kentucky rain keeps pouring down and up ahead's another town
[G] [F] [Em] [F] [C] [Fmaj7] [C] [Em] [Am] [Em] [C]
that I'll go walking thru with the rain in my shoes,
[Am] [Am7] [F] [G7] [C] [Em] [F]
searchin for you in the cold Kentucky rain,
[G7] [C]
in the cold Kentucky rain.
[C] [G] [C] [F]
Showed your photograph to some old gray bearded men
[C] [F] [C] [C7]
sitting on a bench outside a gen'ral store.
[F] [G] [C] [Am]
They said "Yes, she's been here" but their mem'ry wasn't clear,
[D7] [G7]
was it yesterday, no, wait the day before.
[C] [G] [C]
So I fin'ly got a ride with a preacher man who
[F] [C] [F] [C] [C7]
asked: "Where you bound on such a dark afternoon?"
[F] [G] [C]
As we drove on thru the rain as he listened
[Am] [D7] [G7] [Fmaj7]
I explained and he left me with a prayer that I'd find you.
[D7] [C] [Bm] [Em] [Am]
Kentucky rain keeps pouring down and up ahead's another town
[G] [F] [Em] [F] [C] [Fmaj7] [C] [Em] [Am] [Em] [C]
that I'll go walking thru with the rain in my shoes,[Am][Em][C]
[Am] [Am7] [F] [G7] [C] [Em] [F]
searchin for you in the cold Kentucky rain,
[G7] [C] [Em] [F] [G7]
in the cold Kentucky rain, in the cold
