Album: Calling Card (1976)

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• Well, the rain ain't fussy about where it lands
  It'll find you no matter where you stand
  It's gonna rain brother, and it's gonna rain hard
  When the blues comes calling with it's calling card
  
  It ain't so funny when you'd rather die
  Ain't no pleasure when that girl don't reply
  To your love sick letter that you wrote in tears
  About feeling so bad for a million years
  
  Watch out brother, be alert
  Whatever you do, don't show that hurt
  Don't show that hurt
  
  I've been subjected, I've been so distressed
  Come back baby, to clean up this mess
  Clean up this mess
  
  It ain't so funny when you'd rather die
  Ain't no pleasure when that girl don't reply
  To your lovesick letter that you wrote in tears
  About feeling so bad for a million years
  
  Yeah, the rain ain't fussy about where it falls
  It rains on one like it rains on all
  But when it falls brother, it's gonna rain hard
  When the blues comes calling with it's calling card
  
  Watch out brother, be alert
  Whatever you do, don't show that hurt
  Don't show that hurt Writer/s: RORY GALLAGHER
  Publisher: BMG Rights Management
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 3

• Mike Bleathman from Yeovil A wonderful guitarist, saw Rory a few times over the years. Bless his battered strat, and his check lumberjack shirt. A rocking rhythm section too.
• Lorcan from Dubh Linn, IrelandI've been using songfacts a long time, only registered when i seen this...........
  
  Yes Rory has some unreal talent when playing/entertaining live but that statement is more of a personal opinion, this song is a top tune, Gery and Lou are as Ace said, under-rated, who isn't when standing next to the Gallagher fella. decent- needs to be re-written in my opinion.
  
  Definitely a strange write up, no offense, no real information about the track. I know a lot of Rory information is hard to get but......nothing you cant learn from listening to it with the copy in your hand.
• Ace from Otaki, New ZealandWoh, bit of a strange write up. The studio version is great, to say there are better live versions is purely subjective. As for "decent keyboard and bass work" that really is an insult to Lou Martin and Gerry McAvoy. They are very under-rated, which often happens in a situation where the so-called band "leader" is so brilliant.

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