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C            C4/G
Seven lonely days 
       C          C4/G
and a dozen towns ago,
   C               C4/G
I reached out one night 
              C  C4/7
and you were gone

F                     G
Don't know why you'd run, 
            C             Am
what you're running to or from,
D7              Dm7
all I know is I want to 
           F/G G7
bring you home.

        C             C4/G
So I'm walking in the rain,
C              Bb/C
thumbing for a ride 
         C    C4/G
on this lonely 
         C       C4/7
Kentucky backroad

      F                  G
I've loved you much too long 
    C               Am
and my love's too strong
D7
to let you go, never knowing 
          F/G   F7+
what went wrong

D7                          C  G/B
  Kentucky rain keeps pouring down
Em
 and up ahead's another 
Am   G    F    Em F7+
town that I'll go walking thru 
         C          C7+     Am
with the rain in my shoes,(rain in my shoes)
Am       G   F7+ F/G
searchin for you 

       G7            C   G/B F/A
in the cold Kentucky rain
       G7            C    F7+ F/G
in the cold Kentucky rain.

C              C4/G
Showed your photograph 
        C                C9
to some old gray bearded men
        C             Bb/C
sitting on a bench outside 
          C    C7/4
a gen'ral store

           F               G
They said "Yes, she's been here" 
          C             Am
but their mem'ry wasn't clear,
       D7
was it yesterday, 
                   G7
no, wait the day before.

     C            Bb/C
So I fin'ly got a ride 
       C                Bb/C
with a preacher man who asked:
           C                Bb/C
"Where you bound on such a cold dark 
     C    C7/4
afternoon?"

      F                 G
As we drove on thru the rain 
       C           Am
as he listened I explained
       D7
and he left me with a prayer 
              F/G G7 F7+
that I'd find you

D7                          C Bm
Kentucky rain keeps pouring down
Em
and up ahead's another 
Am   G    F    Em F       C
town that I'll go walking thru 
F        C          Em   Am Em C
with the rain in my shoes,
Am       G   F  F/G
searchin for you 

       G7            C   Em F
in the cold Kentucky rain
       G7            C   Em F
in the cold Kentucky rain.
       G7            C   Em F
in the cold Kentucky rain
       G7            C   Em F
in the cold Kentucky rain.
       G7            C   Em F
in the cold Kentucky rain
       G7            C   Em F
in the cold Kentucky rain.