"Kentucky Rain" lyrics

Seven lonely days and a dozen towns ago, I reached out one night and you were gone
Don't know why you would run, what you're running to or from, all I know is I want to bring you home

So I'm walking in the rain, thumbing for a ride on this lonely Kentucky backroad
I've loved you much too long, my love's too strong to let you go, never knowing what went wrong

Kentucky rain keeps pouring down
And up ahead's another town
That I'll go walking through
With the rain in my shoes
Searching for you
In the cold Kentucky rain
In the cold Kentucky rain

Showed your photograph to some old gray-bearded men sitting on a bench outside a general store
They said, "Yes, she's been here," but their memory wasn't clear, "Was it yesterday? No, wait, the day before"

Finally got a ride with a preacher man who asked, "Where you bound on such a cold, dark afternoon?"
As we drove on through the rain as he listened, I explained and he left me with a prayer that I'd find you

Kentucky rain keeps pouring down
And up ahead's another town
That I'll go walking through
With the rain in my shoes
Searching for you
In the cold Kentucky rain
In the cold Kentucky rain
In the cold Kentucky rain
In the cold Kentucky rain
The cold Kentucky rain
In the cold Kentucky rain
In the cold Kentucky rain
In the cold Kentucky rain