Driving me crazy! I partially have the lyrics, but need the band and title

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  1. pleinair4 said:

    Red face Driving me crazy! I partially have the lyrics, but need the band and title

    This was a song sung by a male & female duo in ... perhaps the 80's? with kind of a sultry "hot summer day" sound to it. The chorus goes:

    (Forgive me if I get some of the words wrong)

    "Shake your hair (out) and come and dance with me... We are lonely with no good need to be... (as) the river flows wild to (catch?) the sea...floods the delta ... (can't remember).

    I think the title had "Delta" in it, and perhaps the male's name was David (I remember he came from a pretty popular band).

    HELP!
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    Mumbles said:

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    "Delta Rain" - William Topley ??

    Thunder’s up and the real live wires are talking
    Set me straight as the rain falls on New Orleans
    Silver bells ring for treaties made by starlight
    And through the gutters there will be water
    Chorus:
    For Southern girls and their faces lit by fire-flies

    They call us lovers because our bony legs are tied
    Running wilder than sea and as the rain comes
    Once more to seed, but there ain’t nothing I won’t risk
    To set this bird of love fly free
    We are lonely with no good need to be
    Down a thousand circles fade like you and me
    Where the river grows wide to kiss the sea
    Shake your hair out and come and dance with me
    Floods the delta and lover’s eyes can see

    Tonight is hot and there’s no wind from the ocean
    I hear the drums as they bang across the water
    Forgotten gold and greed and fear at midnight
    Voodoo bells ring for treaties made by starlight

    Chorus

    Does it haunt you still?
    Do you remember how we held each other tight in sorrow
    And in a single raindrop I can see all our tomorrows

    Baby, can’t you too?
    Shake your hair out and come and dance with me
    We are lonely with no good need to be
    Where the river grows wide to kiss the sea
    (she keeps rolling my life’s still in misery)
    Floods the delta and lover’s eyes can see
    Its nice to be important, but its more important to be nice
    Y Ddraig Goch ddyry gychwyn
  3. pleinair4 said:

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    YES!!!!!!! Thank you SO much!
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    Mumbles said:

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    Glad to help
    Its nice to be important, but its more important to be nice
    Y Ddraig Goch ddyry gychwyn
  5. pleinair4 said:

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    May I quote you on that?