Stormy Weather

Album: Stormy Weather: The Legendary Lena (1941-1958) (1943)
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  • Don't know why
    There's no sun up in the sky
    Stormy weather
    Since my man and I ain't together
    Keeps rainin' all the time

    Life is bare
    Gloom and misery everywhere
    Stormy weather
    Just can't get my poor self together
    I'm weary all the time, the time
    So weary all the time

    When he went away, the blues walked in and met me
    If he stays away, old rocking chair will get me
    All I do is pray the Lord above will let me
    Walk in the sun once more

    Can't go on
    All I have in life is gone
    Stormy weather
    Since my man and I ain't together
    Keeps rainin' all the time
    Keeps rainin' all the time

    I walk around, heavy-hearted and sad
    Night comes around, I'm still feelin' bad
    Rain pourin' down, blindin' every hope I had
    This pitterin', patterin', beatin' and spatterin' drives me mad
    Love, love, love, love
    This misery is just too much for me

    Can't go on
    Everything I had is gone
    Stormy weather
    Since my man and I ain't together
    Keeps rainin' all the time
    Keeps rainin' all the time Writer/s: Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn this day in 1957 {November 17th} Ferlin Husky performed "Stormy Weather" on the NBC-TV Sunday-evening musical variety program, 'The Steve Allen Show'...
    "Stormy Weather" from track four of side one on his debut album 'Boulevard Of Broken Dreams'...
    Between 1953 and 1975 the Cantwell, Missouri native had forty eight records on the Billboard's national charts, ten made the Top 10 with three* reaching #1, "A Dear John Letter"
    for 3 non-consecutive weeks in 1953, "Gone" for 5 non-consecutive week in 1957, and "Wings of A Dove" for 8 weeks in 1960}...
    "A Dear John Letter" was a duet with Jean Shepard...
    Ferlin Eugene Husky passed away at the age of 85 on March 17th, 2011...
    * He just missed having a fourth #1 record when his "Country Music Is Here To Stay" peaked at #2 {for three non-consecutive weeks} in 1959, the first week it was at #1, the #1 record for that week was "City Lights" by Ray Price, and for it's 2nd and 3rd week at #2, "Billy Bayou" by Jim Reeves was in the top spot...
    For "Country Music Is Here To Stay" Ferlin Husky used the name of Simon Crum...
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