Song picture
The Dry Rain
Like
Playlist
Comment Share
Free download
A song about one of Jesse James descendants, and what happened to his belongings...
Tonedeaf Jnr. was born into a family of travelling midgets back in 1963, which fortunately coincided with the craze in building roller-coasters. You see that sign that says 'No-one below 3' 6" allowed on this ride'? That's Tonedeaf Snr's work, that is. He rode just about every new coaster built since '64 to check how low a ride's permissions could go before it started launching the occupants out across the park. That's actually how Snr. met Mrs. Deaf. She was trimming her beard over by the caravans when Snr. came flying through the air, narrowly avoiding a mid-air collision with Busted Bone Billy - who was practising his human cannonball act - and landed on the fortune teller's tent, who luckily had seen him coming in more ways than one and had evacuated to the strongman's arms. It was a right circus, but thereafter - and especially when young Tonedeaf started blowing his horn in public - everyone said it must have been fate.
Song Info
Genre
Acoustic • Acoustic General
Charts
Peak #15
Peak in subgenre #6
Uploaded
March 29, 2018
Track Files
MP3
MP3 3.7 MB • 128 kbps • 4:02
Lyrics
The Dry Rain I got caught in the dry rain, one summer’s night on the Missouri plain She told me she had a boy’s name, when I asked her what she said “Jesse… James “Named after my great grand-pa, who never took no for an answer “He roamed these lands near and far, see him still in the midnight stars” Blue eyes, setting sun Mountain time, and the mustangs run Towards her. Because they know. “I’ve still got his silver spurs, they’re still shining despite the years “I wore them once on my old girl, you’d have thought she could have run the whole wide world “Cousin Jake’s still got his gun, and a love letter from 1861 “I read it once in the evening sun, had a moonshine dream that I was the one" Blue eyes, setting sun Mountain time, and the mustangs run Towards her. Because they know. “Folks round here say I’ve got his eyes, when the sun is low it’s like he’s still alive “They’re holding onto something and it’s no surprise, in the mission hall his coat still hangs high “There’s blood in the earth and there’s blood in our veins, blood on the tracks, and blood in the rain “We breathe the same air over again, Jesus Christ and Jesse James” Blue eyes, setting sun Mountain time, and the mustangs run Towards her. Because they know.
Comments
Please sign up or log in to post a comment.