Day: January 14, 2018

Song Lyric Sunday | “Stormy Weather” – Lena Horne

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This week’s prompt is ‘natural disaster’.

The first song to come to mind was Stormy Weather.  Music legend, Ethel Waters, who introduced the song, took it to number 1 in 1933, when versions by Duke Ellington, Guy Lombardo, and Ted Lewis also made the top 10. But Stormy Weather is inextricably linked to the amazing Lena Horne, who recorded the song in 1941 and performed it in the 1943 film of the same name.

The video is the actual scene from the movie where a twenty-six-year-old Lena Horne mesmerizes the nightclub. At song’s end, the Katherine Dunham Dancers take the stage.

 

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Stormy Weather

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
Songwriters: Harold Arlen / Ted Koehler
Stormy Weather lyrics © BMG Rights Management US, LLC, S.A. Music