"I couldn't possibly fail to disagree with you less."
25 October 2005What I'm running to, or fromHas this ever happened to you? You've heard the song fifty, a hundred, a thousand times before, but this time it hits you where you live, and you don't know why, but you can't deny it.
Showed your photograph
To some old gray bearded men Sitting on a bench outside a gen'ral store They said "Yes, she's been here" But their memory wasn't clear Was it yesterday, no, wait the day before
So I fin'ly got a ride
With a preacher man who asked "Where you bound on such a dark afternoon?" As we drove on thru the rain As he listened I explained And he left me with a prayer that I'd find you Both Eddie Rabbitt (who wrote those words) and Elvis (who sang them) are gone now, so I can't ask them. But I have some familiarity with that cold Kentucky rain — every time I've been there I've been caught in it — and I know that it doesn't last forever. If there's some pertinent deeper meaning, well, maybe it will come around in the next 35 years. (Addendum, 6:20 pm: I swear I didn't know about this at the time.) Posted at 5:48 PM to Tongue and GrooveWho was it that went on to have a somewhat more modest hit with "Smoky Mountain Rain?" It had a trucker instead of a preacher, and was somewhat less poetic, but... Posted by: McGehee at 9:54 AM on 27 October 2005Ronnie Milsap, it appears. |