Every time my ship comes in, a hurricane blows it out again   Stormy weather seems to hang around my door   My sweet bird of paradise, flew the coop on me last night   Oh, and every time it rain, Lord don't it pour      I got a letter from the IRS   They said, ?Son, you're in a hell of a mess   Our computer shows you owe ten-thousand more?   Well, that machine's made a bad mistake   'Cause that's more than this poor boy makes   Oh, and every time it rain, Lord don't it pour      Every time it rains, I just wash my car   The whole neighborhood goes, swimmin' in my front yard   Well, my mother-in-law says, she's stayin' three weeks more   Oh, and every time it rain, Lord don't it pour      Just got my car out of the shop   Two blocks down the street it stopped   I went to use the telephone at the grocery store   I walked back to my Chevrolet   But they towed that sucker away   Oh, and every time it rain, Lord don't it pour      Every time it rains, I just wash my car   The whole neighborhood goes, swimmin' in my front yard   Well, my mother-in-law says, she's stayin' three weeks more   Oh, and every time it rain, Lord don't it pour   Well, and every time it rain, Lord don't it pour