(Northern) Soulklassieker du jour: Rainy Night In Georgia

Tony Joe White schreef Rainy Night in Georgia in 1962, een van zijn eerste eigen composities. Het origineel is prachtig, evenals de covers van Boz Scaggs en Ray Charles, maar de ultieme versie is toch van Brook Benton.  Schitterend arrangement, de beste studiomusici die destijds te vinden waren, en Brook’s magnifieke stem. Niemand die zo mooi  melancholiek kan klinken als Brook Benton.

Hoverin’ by my suitcase, tryin’ to find a warm place to spend the night
Heavy rain fallin’, seems I hear your voice callin’ “It’s all right.”
A rainy night in Georgia, a rainy night in Georgia
It seems like it’s rainin’ all over the world
I feel like it’s rainin’ all over the world
Neon signs a-flashin’, taxi cabs and buses passin’ through the night
A distant moanin’ of a train seems to play a sad refrain to the night
A rainy night in Georgia, such a rainy night in Georgia
Lord, I believe it’s rainin’ all over the world
I feel like it’s rainin’ all over the world
How many times I wondered
It still comes out the same
No matter how you look at it or think of it
It’s life and you just got to play the game

I find me a place in a box car, so I take my guitar to pass some time
Late at night when it’s hard to rest I hold your picture to my chest and
I feel fine
(minor scat) But it’s a rainy night in Georgia, baby, it’s a rainy night
in Georgia I
feel it’s rainin’ all over the world, kinda lonely now And it’s rainin’
all over the
world
Oh, have you ever been lonely, people?
And you feel that it was rainin’ all over this man’s world
You’re talking ‘bout rainin’, rainin’, rainin’, rainin’, rainin’,
rainin’, rainin’,
rainin’, rainin’ rainin’, rainin’, rainin’