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Thread #112268   Message #2373210
Posted By: Azizi
24-Jun-08 - 09:48 AM
Thread Name: It's Raining (songs about rain)
Subject: RE: It's Raining
These lyrics keep goin round & round in my head since I started this thread-Yeah I know it's my own fault. Does anyone know which song they come from?

River looks dark with the shadows on it.
Mighty black clouds in the sky above.
Still I ain't 'fraid of the rain, doggone it.
River and rain are the things I love.

Rain fall down on me.
I'm as happy as I can be...

-snip-

I learned this song in junior high school music class. I vaguely recall somebody posted it on another Mudcat thread and mentioning that it was a Blues song. It woulda been too much like right for my teacher to tell us students that that song was Blues. But maybe he didn't know. Teaching the Blues in American public schools in the early to mid 1960s? It never happened and still probably isn't happening today.

But that's a whole 'nuther story.