Lyr Req: It Rains Just the Same in Missouri (Griff

Subject: old song about idaho and missouri
From: GUEST,juliana
Date: 12 Jul 07 - 09:25 PM

My uncle is looking for the rest of an old song that he remembers from his childhood. This is what he remembers

"They say you're going from me and Idaho to Missouri to where sun will always shine...
but it rains just the same in Missouri as it does here in old Idaho"

If anyone knows the rest or any more to this, please email me at [e-mail]. Thanks.

Subject: Lyr Add: IT RAINS THE SAME IN MISSOURI
From: GUEST,Mysterious Stranger
Date: 13 Jul 07 - 02:06 PM

IT RAINS THE SAME IN MISSOURI

Your silent tears are falling on your suitcase filled with clothes.
Your trembling lips are telling me we're through.
You say you're going far away from me and Idaho
To Missouri where the hurt can't get to you.

But that silver bird can't hide you from the cloudy things in life.
Don't let a lovers' quarrel end it all.
You can't run away and hide yourself when things don't go just right.
Anywhere you are, the tears are sure to fall.

CHORUS: Cause it rains just the same in Missouri
As it does here in old Idaho.
You'll cry just the same as you find that it rains
In Missouri or wherever you go.

You seem to think that leaving me and Idaho behind
Will keep all the rainy days from you,
But out there in Missouri, the sun won't always shine,
And you're sure to find the sky's not always blue. CHORUS

Subject: RE: old song about idaho and missouri
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 13 Jul 07 - 02:35 PM

Thanks for posting the song. Who wrote it? Source?

Subject: RE: old song about idaho and missouri
From: Joe Offer
Date: 13 Jul 07 - 02:54 PM

Well, I'd bet "Stranger" got the lyrics here (click). Stranger, have I heard you sing this one? Seems to me this might be the kind of thing you sing only after 4 AM.
-Joe-

Subject: Lyr Add: AWAY, IDAHO
From: Charley Noble
Date: 13 Jul 07 - 03:44 PM

This one does not appear to be in the Digital Archives.

Collected by Frank Warner from Deac (C. T.) Martin, 1952
Recorded by Frank Warner on OUR SINGING HERITAGE, Elektra records, 1958.
Published in TRADITIONAL AMERICAN FOLK SONGS, edited by Anne Warner, Syracuse University, © 1984, pp. 441-442

AWAY, IDAHO (We're Coming, Idaho)

CHORUS: Away, Idaho!
We're coming Idaho;
Our four-horse team
Will soon be seen
Way out in Idaho!

They say there is a land,
Where the crystal waters flow
O'er beds of ore of purest gold
Way out in Idaho! CHORUS

We'll need no sieve or spade,
No shovel, pan or hoe;
The largest chunks lay top of ground,
Way out in Idaho! CHORUS

We'll face hard times no more,
And want we'll never know,
When we have filled our packs with gold,
Way out in Idaho! CHORUS

Warner notes that this song should not be confused with a railroading song of the same title.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: old song about idaho and missouri
From: GUEST,Rains just the same in Missouri
Date: 13 Jul 07 - 04:35 PM

I had it on record by the great Mac Wiseman.

Subject: RE: old song about idaho and missouri
From: Janie
Date: 13 Jul 07 - 07:50 PM

It was written by Ray Griff. It is mighty fine song. I learned it from Katie Laur.

Janie

Subject: RE: old song about idaho and missouri
From: Janie
Date: 13 Jul 07 - 08:17 PM

Shoulda finished that last post. Katie recorded it on "Cookin' with Katie" with the Kate Laur Band back in, I believe, the early '70's.

If you are in the Cincinnati area and have a chance to hear Katie perform, jump at it. Dynamite voice, good song writer, and an all round nice woman.

Janie

Subject: RE: old song about idaho and missouri
From: Charley Noble
Date: 14 Jul 07 - 12:00 PM

refresh!

Wasn't there a famous song called "The Idaho Spud"?

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: old song about idaho and missouri
From: Joe Offer
Date: 15 Jul 07 - 02:49 AM

Janie - which song was written by Ray Griff? The one Charley posted, or the one from the Mysterious Stranger (It Rains the Same In Missouri).
-Joe-

Subject: RE: old song about idaho and missouri
From: Janie
Date: 15 Jul 07 - 08:59 AM

Ray Griff wrote "It Rains Just the Same in Missouri."

listen here for a sample of Mac Wiseman's rendition, which I prefer to the Ray Griff sample available on his own website.

Janie

Subject: RE: old song about idaho and missouri
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 21 Jul 07 - 12:18 AM

Allmusic.com says that IT RAINS JUST THE SAME IN MISSOURI was written by Ray Griff and recorded by Mac and Chubby on "Live at Gilley's" 2001.

Subject: Darling, what more can I do?
From: GUEST,Richard Gainer
Date: 10 Apr 14 - 11:12 AM

Jennie Lou Carson wrote the song with co-writer Gene Autry in 1945. Sure would like the words as well as an audible of the song. Thanks for your help -- I hope.
Richard Gainer
Land O' Lakes, Fl

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: It Rains Just the Same in Missouri (Griff
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 11 Apr 14 - 10:13 AM

I just read the lyrics of the song, and I think the lady might improve her life quite a bit by getting away from that jeering, obvious-stating, know-it-all.

By the way, I've been to both Idaho and Missouri. It may rain in Missouri as in Idaho, but in Missouri winter doesn't end in May and start again in August.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: It Rains Just the Same in Missouri (Griff
From: Janie
Date: 11 Apr 14 - 04:22 PM

Hi Richard.

To which song are you referring? Ray Griff wrote "It Rains Just the Same in Missouri" and there recordings of it on Youtube.   Charlie posted another song, "Away, Idaho" to this thread. Was that song written by Carson and Autry?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: It Rains Just the Same in Missouri (Griff
From: cnd
Date: 17 Feb 21 - 09:45 AM

Has anyone else ever noticed the similarities between this song and the Roy Acuff song, Don't Make Me Go To Bed And I'll Be Good, in terms of key, tune, and melody?

Do they share a common source, or is it just another case of musical borrowing?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: It Rains Just the Same in Missouri (Griff
From: cnd
Date: 17 Feb 21 - 09:46 AM

I should add that it could be the particular version I was listening to, by The Cox's on Heartaches Along The Horizon

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: It Rains Just the Same in Missouri (Griff
From: GUEST,#
Date: 17 Feb 21 - 09:58 AM

cnd, the following may be of interest to you:

https://secondhandsongs.com/work/150047/all

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: It Rains Just the Same in Missouri (Griff
From: leeneia
Date: 17 Feb 21 - 10:38 AM

Recently I've learned a term for the kind of thing the guy is doing in this song. It's called "mansplaining" i.e., stating the obvious in a condescending manner. While pretending to be helpful, mansplainers make it clear they think the woman is stupid.

Because of course she knows it rains in Missouri. How else could it be so beautiful?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: It Rains Just the Same in Missouri (Griff
From: cnd
Date: 17 Feb 21 - 12:55 PM

Thanks, #, that is neat