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With tear-stained eyes and with dust in my mouth
I loaded the horses and headed down south.
Mile after mile cross the high desert plains
Ears still a-ringing with the song of the rain.

I searched many days, and I searched many nights,
Til finally I found him, just barely alive,
Dying from thirst and half gone insane,
Like some lunatic ranting the song of the rain.

And though he'd betrayed me and done me great wrong,
I stayed by his side until he was strong,
Then as friends did we turn to ride homeward again,
Singing together the song of the rain.

But our steeds grew too weak for the climb,
So we entered the Anderson mine
And sheltered a while from the cold,
As the furnaces raged down below.
And there in the dark
'Mongst the rats and the coal,
I struck the back of his head with a stone,
And casting his body into the flames
I screamed at the heavens the song of the rain.

And now in a strange place of pain do I dwell,
shunned from the gates of both heaven and hell,
And if you should pass through these valleys again
You'll hear my banshee howling the song of the rain.

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from A Dying Man Can Sure Sing The Blues, released May 13, 2013
Lyrics and music by James R Closs. Performed by Muleskinner Jones.

Background vocals by Harmony Blaise and Elvis Jai Closs, Ameila and Angel Walker.

Background vocals by the Nota Bene singers.

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