12.

Montgomery In The Rain

Steve Young

© Golden Chain Music, BMI

Well here I am again down in Montgomery Alabamy
My luck ain't never been up but I'm used to it now
So all you people don't look at me and frown
I don't wanna stay here I'm just passing through your town
And I just came back here to see an old stained window pane
Before you tear it all down and bring out your crane
And I wanted to see Montgomery in the rain

Around these streets an old houses a lotta changes I've been through
From the top of the town to washing cars being down out and blue
And I once met a woman here with ways like I'd never seen
And I used to ramble between here and New Orleans
So I've just come back here to remember a joy and a pain
And look back to a year through a tear and an old window pane
And I wanted to see Montgomery in the rain

So you don't have to hide your baby you don't have to go get no gun
I know I look funny to you all honey but I'm just one
Who was once from here and now who's come back again
I ain't asking for nothing but my song in a cemetery wind
Cause if it's all right with you before I get back on my train
I wanna go out by Hank's tombstone and cry the other thunderstorm chain
Cause I did want to see Montgomery in the rain

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