Rains On Me


This is how the world will be
Everywhere I go it rains on me
Forty monkeys drowning in a boiling sea
Everywhere I go it rains on me
I went down into the valley to pray
Everywhere I go it rains on me
I got drunk and I stayed all day
Everywhere I go it rains on me

Everywhere I go
Everywhere I go
Everywhere I go
It rains on me

All god's chilluns can't you see
Everywhere I go it rains on me
Louie Lista and Marchese(1)
Everywhere I go it rains on me
Robert Sheehan and Paul Body(1)
Everywhere I go it rains on me
I went down to Argyle, I went down to Dix
Everywhere I go it rains on me
To get my powders and to get my fix
Everywhere I go it rains on me

Everywhere I go
Everywhere I go
Everywhere I go
It rains on me

Everywhere I go
Everywhere I go
Everywhere I go
It rains on me

Written by: Chuck E. Weiss and Tom Waits
Published by: Chuck E. Weiss Music (ASCAP)/ Jalma Music (ASCAP), ©1999.
Rykomusic, Inc. (ASCAP) a division of Evergreen Copyrights (both admin. by ICG)
Official release: Extremely Cool - Chuck E. Weiss, Slow River/ Rykodisc, 1999
Re-released on: Orphans (Brawlers), (P) & © 2006 Anti Inc.

Known covers:
None

Notes:

(1) Louie Lista and Marchese,...Robert Sheehan and Paul Body.
- Notice the subtitle for Jitterbug Boy, 1974/ 1976: "Sharing a Curbstone With Chuck E. Weiss, Robert Marchese, Paul Body And The Mug And Artie."
- Chuck E. Weis: Chicago born musician and longtime friend. Further reading: Chuck E. Weiss.
- Robert Sheehan: now deceased Blues Traveler's bassist Bobby Sheehan? (Bobby Sheehan died on August 30, 1999 at his New Orleans home due to an accidental drug overdose.)
- Robert Marchese: (?)
- Paul Body: 1. "Paul Body, is active in the music and spoken word and literary community. He's released a solo compact disc, "Love Is Like Rasputin" for New Alliance Records, and participated in the laserdisc collection audio/visual document L.A. JOURNAL released by The Voyager Company. He's also just completed a reading in the July, '95 "Rock and Roll In Literature" series at The MET Theater in Hollywood that featured actors Ed Harris, Bill Pullman, Chloe Webb, Beverly D'Angelo and other musicians and poets. He's also a clerk at Video Journeys and a film fanatic. (Source: "From The B's Nest", Alternative Cinema issue #6 - pgs. 8-9, 1995) 2. "Paul Body has many claims to fame: poet, writer, accordionist, and longtime friend of Tom Waits. On his album Love Is Like Rasputin, Body lays out his humorous and sometimes-touching thoughts on 1965 Los Angeles in a series of diary entries. Thirty years after witnessing the Watts riots, his mother's death, and the rise of his beloved Rolling Stones, Body is still actively performing across the city where he came of age." (Source: "SXSW Spoken Word: 1996" by Phil West. The Austin Chronicle) 3. "(Source: Letter to Art Fein as published on "Another Fein Mess." October, 2002)
- The Mug: Musician, actor and poet Louie Lista. Name checked in the Blue Valentine linernotes as Louis Lista. "Louie got his start in the field of blues and folk music in the early 1960's when he studied harmonica with the legendary blues musician Taj Mahal. After playing countless shows at such popular venues as the Ash Grove and Troubadour in Hollywood, he helped to found the seminal 1970's powerhouse roots rock group, The Sheiks of Shake. They recorded for Mystic Records and shared stages with such musical "national treasures" as Clifton Chenier and Muddy Waters. In the late 1970's, after David Wulff completed a year long performing stint with the Shieks, Louie and Wulff started playing as an acoustic duo covering a wide range of musical styles from folk to country to blues, jazz and even contemporary popular songs. They shared stages with a "who's who" list of then popular recording artists, including R.E.M., Black Flag, the Circle Jerks, X, and The Knitters. In the 1980's they added electric guitars, bass and drums to the mix, founded the Outer City Allstars and expanded our venues to include such unlikely performance opportunities as opening for Pro Wrestling matches. In the early 1990's, Louie signed with New Alliance Records and showcased his talent as a spoken word artist on two CDs, "To Sleep With the Lights On" and "Walkin' and Talkin'". The first CD contained several songs that David Wulff produced and the second was recorded with longtime friend David Crittendon, a talented singer, pianist and author. As the 1990's progressed, Louie's love of and training in theater (Santa Monica City College) led to a series of high profile acting jobs. He played opposite Emmy award winning Kay Lenz ("Rich Man, Poor Man", "The Big Chill") as Sir Toby Belch in Spike Stewart's modern day tribute to William Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" ("The 12th Nite"). He also was a featured actor working alongside none other than Ringo Starr in Century 21 Real Estate's television commercial "Perfect Hook-ups". (Source: "Louie Lista Benefit at La Cañada United Methodist Church", by David Wulff. March 8, 2003)


Art Fein, Tom Waits and Paul Body (late 1977)
Source: "Another Fein Mess/ Other Fein Messes" by Art Fein. March, 2003. Copyright Art Fein