You Are My Sunshine
This is the song I often sang to myself at the early stage of my NB thru hike,
Del Shannon - "Runaway"
.....
I'm a-walkin' in the rain
Tears are fallin' and I feel the pain
Wishin' you were here by me
To end this misery
.....
It's Gonna Rain - Lucinda Williams
Blind Melon- No Rain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Miec205fvnE
Dave Matthews- Grave Digger "Grave Digger, when you dig my grave, won't you make it shallow, so that I can feel the rain?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skEwfH_loX8
When I'm hiking I dont really listen to much music, I hum a lot and sing under my breath. Oddly one of the songs that sticks in my head in the old Soviet Union anthem. I guess I watched "Hunt for Red October" too many times. The other is Beethoven's 9th symphont, the choral part (Ode to Joy). However, after rolling my ankle twice in 100 yards once hike, I started swearing a blue streak. I don't shun "curse words". I enjoy swearing, and have refined it into an art form, inventing new ones when old words wear out. This particular hike, I was humming the 9th (just the music, I don't speak German), when I rolled my ankle the second time. So I started singing the "F" word to the tune of Ode to Joy. It's incredibly absurd, one of the most beautiful pieces of music set down by the hand of man, with the lyrics replaced by one of the most offensive words in English.
So now when I'm feeling bad or tired or the weather is nasty, I stroll along and sing "Beethoven's 9th Symphookny in F Major". It's guaranteed to make me feel better.
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"I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. Thank God for Search and Rescue" - Robert Frost (first edit).
Like the rain~Clint Black
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9gcds0xLgXA
Thank you. Many new ones. Like that RS.
My Dad went to school with his Dad...they called him G.A. Black, Gwen Augustus if I recall correctly.Originally Posted by Dogwood
Aw man, just read his father took his own life a few years back after his wife died.
http://tasteofcountry.com/clint-black-dad-suicide/
Yay, rain songs! I've pretty much learned to embrace the suck. Except cold, raw, icing, never-ending suck...
Led Zep, Rain Song (sufficiently depressing): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDVnjCwCYCs
CCR, Have You Ever Seen the Rain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TS9_ipu9GKw
Clapton, Let It Rain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmlVcF3BAD0
Doors, Riders on the Storm: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lS-af9Q-zvQ
After a couple of days of cold rain:
CCR, Who'll Stop the Rain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIPan-rEQJA
GnR, November Rain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0McfH-hweQ
YMMV, and invariably will...
Slack-jawed Troglodyte
Did no one mention Dee Clark's 1961 hit Raindrops? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUnwOwz6OvQ.
Even further back, how about "The Rain in Spain" from the musical My Fair Lady., the facts of which can be confirmed or denied by experienced Camino Santiago hikers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmADMB2utAo
And then's there "Summer" from Vivaldi's Four Seasons for my fellow Baroque music fans. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KY1p-FmjT1M
What about rain and fog? Quite common on the AT. More often than not, Gordon Bok's Bay of Fundy goes thorugh my mind https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6tBSZVaaZI I like the line "I don't mind the wet and cold, I just don't like the growing old."
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+3 for The Dead songs "L.L. Rain", "Box of Rain" (Yay Phil!!!) and "Cold Rain and Snow"
How about a whole album...
Pavement: "Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain" 1994
90's Indie/Slacker/College Radio at it's absolute finest!
they had many good LP's, but this is the one that got me hooked!
Their song "Spit on a Stranger" from "Terror Twilight" almost fits the category!
Oh Black Water - Doobie Brothers
Running Down a Dream - Tom Petty
The Weight of the World - Elton John
Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain - Willie Nelson
When It Rains It Pours - Merle Haggard
Riders On the Storm - The Doors
"Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen." Louis L’Amour
Perhaps I missed it but did anyone mention Gene Kelly Singin' in the Rain?
I guess my vintage is showing, lol.
Another whole Album...This one with a title track!
Purple Rain
R.I.P. great Prince!
What a great talent he was!
The Bangles "Manic Monday" was a Prince song...Reference to water in that song is the "crystal blue Italian stream"
Rain, rain, rain down on me.
Again, and again.
Rain down on me.
Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
"Rhapsody In The Rain," Lou Christie, 1966ish. This is the version the late Dick Clark banned from American Bandstand because "it violated America's morals." LOL. Sounds like a nursery rhyme today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnFU-bMDICE
"Kentucky Rain," by Elvis Presley. Maybe not for the AT, but trails in Land Between The Lakes?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YU2U3QAUGak
https://www.explorekentuckylake.com/lbl/hiking.htm
Or the Sheltowee Trace.
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