Delta Rain - William Topley

where do i get the words to shake your hair out come dance with me?

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.