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