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Lead singer: Michelle Grand. Original song by Melanie Safka
From the album "Pure Gold"

Cyclone

ORDINARY RAIN
Writer: Melanie Safka
Publishers: Songs of Melanie (ASCAP)
From the album EVER SINCE YOU NEVER HEARD OF ME (2010)

People woke to another day
It had rained throughout the night
Ate breakfast went to church and
Did the things that people do
With no let up in sight

Just an ordinary rain
Ordinary rain 
Who could have thought, such a drowning flood
In an ordinary rain

Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh
Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh

When the rains came down in Nashville
And the Dam was compromised
Rivers rose and all hell broke loose
Hit the people by surprise

Just an ordinary rain
Ordinary rain 
Who could have thought, such a drowning flood
In an ordinary rain

Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh
Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh

To some it is a blessing,
But what I've come to know,
Is the same rain that drowns one world
Helps another to grow.

Ordinary Rain
Ordinary Rain
Ordinary Rain

Ever Since You Never Heard Of Me

Ordinary Rain

Melanie Safka first attracted national attention when she stepped onto the stage at Woodstock, the summer of '69. As dawn broke, and rain began to fall, she performed on a stage that transformed a generation and changed music forever. 

Photo © Maddy Miller

Ordinary Rain

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