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It's Gonna Rain (Scott Ainslie)

from Thunder's Mouth by Scott Ainslie

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I began this song roughly eight weeks before Katrina hit New Orleans and sang it first around the 4th of July, 2005. Four weeks later, the ground under this little lost love song moved and it became a song about losing a city. Always in memoriam for New Orleans, the song has become a beacon of hope for many who have suffered losses like that.

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It's Gonna Rain (Scott Ainslie)

I met you down at Evangeline,
Wearing one of your pretty things.
I’ll never forget how you looked that day;
your eyes so bright as you walked my way.

But I’ve been lonely and I’ve been blue;
Feeling lost since I lost you.
And the wind’s pickin’ up on Lake Pontchartrain;
Any fool could see…

It’s gonna rain; well, gonna rain.
It’s gonna rain; yeah, gonna rain.

The sun’s peeking in underneath the blinds:
What makes you think you’re welcome here.
Go find yourself somewhere else to shine.
I gotta get outta here.

There’s beer bottles and broken Mardi Gras beads
Laying up between parked cars.
I got me a cold morning here in New Orleans and
No good idea, where you are.

It’s gonna rain….

And last night, from the vast cold vacuum of space,
by the light of that moon, I swear I could see your face:

Half-lit ‘neathe the cypress trees,
Where the cottonwoods whisper in the evening breeze,
I know you’ve gone; I know we’ve changed.
But I still get this feelin’ when I can smell the rain.

I never come down here to Bourbon Street.
Nobody in this crowd that I care to meet.
But, I’ll have one little whiskey in your name,
as they run for the doorways and it starts to rain.

It’s gonna rain.

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from Thunder's Mouth, track released September 22, 2008

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Scott Ainslie Brattleboro, Vermont

A long history with older black blues and gospel players in the mid-South marks Ainslie's work deeply. He transcribed all of Robert Johnson's recorded songs for "Robert Johnson/At The Crossroads" (Hal Leonard, 1992) and has a teaching DVD on Johnson's music. A fine songwriter with a social conscience and a belief in the power of music to move and inspire, Ainslie's voice is a great force for good! ... more

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