Keeps On A-Rainin 
by 
Max Kortlander 
/ Williams 
recording of 1923 or 1924 
from 
The Complete Recordings, Vol. 1 (Columbia/Legacy C2K-47091) 
One dark and stormy night, Bill Jones was feeling blue 
Things didn't seem just right, so he didn't know just what to do 
I said: Bill, please tell me, ain't you satisfied? 
He looked around so pitiful, then to me he replied 
Keeps on a-rainin', look how it's rainin' 
Papa he can't make no time 
Wind keeps blowing, cold wind blowing 
Soon I'll find a southern clime 
In the wintertime when it starts to snow 
You know you pretty mama's got to have some dough 
Keeps on rainin', look how it's rainin' 
Papa he can't make no time 
Ain't the snow just beautiful, some people say 
But I'd rather see it in a moving picture play 
Keeps on snowin', look how it's snowin' 
Papa he can't make no time 
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Note: subtitle "Papa, He Can't Make No Money"; 
Note 1: clime, climate.