William Topley - Delta Rain lyrics
rate meThunder’s up and the real live wires are talking<br />
Set me straight as the rain falls on New Orleans<br />
Silver bells ring for treaties made by starlight<br />
For Southern girls and their faces lit by fire-flies<br />
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Chorus: <br />
And through the gutters there will be water<br />
Running wilder than sea and as the rain comes <br />
Down a thousand circles fade like you and me<br />
They call us lovers because our bony legs are tied <br />
Once more to seed, but there ain’t nothing I won’t risk<br />
To set this bird of love fly free<br />
Shake your hair out and come and dance with me<br />
We are lonely with no good need to be <br />
Where the river grows wide to kiss the sea <br />
Floods the delta and lover’s eyes can see <br />
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Tonight is hot and there’s no wind from the ocean<br />
I hear the drums as they bang across the water<br />
Voodoo bells ring for treaties made by starlight<br />
Forgotten gold and greed and fear at midnight<br />
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Chorus<br />
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Do you remember how we held each other tight in sorrow<br />
Does it haunt you still?<br />
And in a single raindrop I can see all our tomorrows<br />
Baby, can’t you too?<br />
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Shake your hair out and come and dance with me<br />
We are lonely with no good need to be <br />
Where the river grows wide to kiss the sea <br />
(she keeps rolling my life’s still in misery)<br />
Floods the delta and lover’s eyes can see
