Lyr Req: Heavy Rain (The Spinners - UK)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Heavy Rain (The Spinners - UK)
From: GUEST
Date: 23 Dec 12 - 08:34 AM

Iwas looking for the words, so thank you

Subject: Lyr Add: HEAVY RAIN (The Spinners - UK)
From: GUEST,Diane
Date: 18 Jul 11 - 03:41 PM

begin with

CHORUS:
Oh what a heavy, heavy rain, what a heavy rain and breeze-o,
Rain, rain, rain, what a heavy rain and breeze,
Oh what a heavy heavy rain, what a heavy rain and breeze-o,
Rain, rain, rain, what a heavy rain and breeze.

1: Me no put no close-a-door,
So me no look when rain a-come-o,

REPEAT CHORUS

2: Look, the old gal in a cheap frock,
Coulda wash out all the dye-o,

REPEAT CHORUS

3: All the big car them shut down
Only the small one them a run-o,

REPEAT CHORUS

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Heavy Rain (The Spinners - UK)
From: Bernard
Date: 13 Feb 10 - 05:03 PM

It's Cliff Hall singing, so I'd guess Carribbean...

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Heavy Rain (The Spinners - UK)
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 13 Feb 10 - 04:19 PM

HEAVY RAIN, by The Spinners (of Liverpool, UK), is on their album "Best of the Spinners: Maggie May" (1998), and on the various-artists compilations "Folk Legends, Vol. 1" (2001) and "The Folk Box" (2002). According to Allmusic.com, on the last album, it is attributed to "Davis, Groves, Hall, Jones." Those would be the members of The Spinners. (Not to be confused with The Spinners of Philadelphia, USA.)

Here's what I was able to transcribe from a couple of samples:

Me no put no close-a-door,
So me no look when rain a-come-o.

Rain, rain, rain,
What a heavy rain and breeze!
Oh, what a heavy, heavy rain!
What a heavy rain and breezle [or "breeze-o"?]!


[Anybody know what kind of dialect is being represented here?]

Subject: Heavy rain lyrics
From: GUEST,Ross
Date: 20 Aug 03 - 04:19 PM

Anyone got the lyrics

I've heard a version by the Spinners

'what a heavy heavy rain

what a heavy rain and breezle?' etc