Seven lonely days   And a dozen towns ago   I reached out one night   And you were gone   Don't know why you'd 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 be 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?      well I 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   And 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 be walking through   With the rain in my shoes,   Searching for you   In the cold Kentucky rain!    whoooooa...   In the cold Kentucky rain!    whoooooa...   In the cold Kentucky rain!    whoooooa