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This week our host Jim Adams for Song Lyric Sunday has given us the prompt of “songs that mention rain”.

The goal is to take the prompt and profile a song that has it part of its lyrics or title.

Please consider carving out time to read the posts of other bloggers who responded to the Song Lyric Sunday challenge.

Rules for Song Lyric Sunday

Post the lyrics to the song of your choice, whether it contains the prompt words or not.  If it does not meet the criteria, then please explain why you chose this song.
• Please try to include the songwriter(s) – it’s a good idea to give credit where credit is due.  Your post can be as long or as short as you want it to be.
• Make sure you also credit the singer/band and if you desire you can provide a link to where you found the lyrics.
• Link to the YouTube video or pull it into your post so others can listen to the song.
• Ping back to this post or place your link in the comments section below.
• Read at least one other person’s blog, so we can all share new and fantastic music and create amazing new blogging friends in the process.
• Feel free to suggest future prompts.
• Have fun and enjoy the music.

Rainy Day Women #12 and #35

In addition to Song Lyric Sunday, I am also participating this month in a 30-Day State Trivia Coach4aday Challenge. For this challenge each day I post some interesting fact about a state I have never lived in. I choose Wyoming. When it comes to rain here are the facts about Wyoming.

Wyoming gets 13 inches of rain, on average, per year. The US average is 38 inches of rain per year. Wyoming averages 56 inches of snow per year. The US average is 28 inches of snow per year.

The song I choose is Rainy Day Women #12 and #35 was released in 1966 and was included on Bob Dylan’s album “Blond on Blonde“. The song was a top 10 hit for Dylan and rose to #2 in a weekly chart behind the Mama’s and Papa’s hit Monday, Monday.

With the line, “Everybody Must Get Stoned,” this song is often associated with smoking marijuana. Bob Dylan has often stated that the song is about troubled relationships with women. The “official” explanation of how this song got its name: A woman and her daughter came into the recording studio out of the rain. Dylan guessed their ages correctly as 12 and 35. Nowhere in the lyrics is the word rain mentioned, just in the song title.

This was included on the soundtrack to the 1994 movie Forrest Gump. Some critics have said the song sounds like a tune the Salvation Army brass band would play. There might be a good reason for that.

Guitarist and bassist Charlie McCoy played the trumpet on this. He recalled to Uncut magazine March 2014: “(Producer, Bob) Johnston said, ‘Tonight he wants to do a song with a Salvation Army sound – we need a trumpet and trombone.’ I said, ‘Does the trumpet need to be good?’ He’s said, ‘no!’

Lyrics

Video

I found a YouTube clip that includes the rehearsal and the final take.

Next week the prompt is Mind, Think, Brain