rain songs

I spent most of yesterday moving bricks in the rain. I couldn't help but thinking about songs that mention rain in the title. So if I were making a mix disc for rainy weather...

1. Crying in the Rain (The Everly Brothers)
2. I Wish it Would Rain (Wreckless Eric)
3. Raining Raining (Nick Lowe)
4. I Love a Rainy Night (Eddie Rabbit)
5. Mandolin Rain (Pam Tillis)
6. Walking in the Rain (The Partridge Family)
7. It's Raining Men (The Weather Girls)
8. Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head (BJ Thomas)
9. Have You Ever Seen the Rain (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
10. Rainy Jane (Davy Jones)
11. Purple Rain (Prince & the Revolution)
12. Freeway in the Rain (Sean Tyla)
13. You Don't Have to Walk in the Rain (The Turtles)
14. Thunder and Rain (Graham Parker and the Rumour)
15. Here Comes the Rain Again (Eurythmics)
16. The Rain (Oran "Juice Jones)

Your mileage may vary

a poetic line

Until today I had never stopped to think about how poetic is a line from a Creedence song:

Have you ever seen the rain
Coming down on a sunny day?
 

nitpicking about geography if i may

I was in the car, listening to "Cotton Fields" as done by the Highwaymen. There are plenty of other versions, if you prefer. Creedence Clearwater Revival's version comes to mind. Anyway I was struck by the line "It was down in Louisiana / Just about a mile from Texarkana."

I've been to Texarkana. Both Texarkana, TX and Texarkana, AR. They are close to Louisiana, but not close enough that any patrt of Louisiana could be described as being "just about a mile from Texarkana." If it were up to me, that line would be rewritten as "Just a few miles from Texarkana" or something vague like that.