{"id":148,"date":"2021-05-10T01:59:03","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T01:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=148"},"modified":"2026-03-13T22:07:03","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T22:07:03","slug":"blue-eyes-cryin-in-the-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/blue-eyes-cryin-in-the-rain\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Eyes Cryin&#8217; in the Rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">jim plaster <span id=\"xyz_ihs_shortcode_5\" class=\"xyz_ihs_copy_shortcode\"> https:\/\/youtu.be\/noJYrfs9IwI<\/span><span id=\"xyz_ihs_shortcode_5\" class=\"xyz_ihs_copy_shortcode\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">by Fred Rosey :: Key of C ::<\/span> :: <input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='69ea6365395d26029840423' value='69ea6365395d26029840423'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-69ea6365395d26029840423' value='Show More'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-69ea6365395d26029840423' value='Show Less'><button id='bg-showmore-action-69ea6365395d26029840423' class='bg-showmore-plg-button bg-orange-button  '   style=\" color:#4a4949;\">Show More<\/button><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-69ea6365395d26029840423' ><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Even by the standards of sorrowful country songs, &#8220;Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain&#8221; is one somber tune. The singer kisses his love goodbye, knowing he&#8217;ll never see her again. As he sings it, he&#8217;s now an old man who never found true love again and looks forward to meeting her in heaven.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Singing the song night after night took an emotional toll on Nelson, who was a notorious drinker in the late &#8217;70s. He explained in a Hot Press interview: &#8220;It&#8217;s really difficult to sing &#8216;Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain&#8217; or &#8216;Always On My Mind&#8217; without getting emotionally involved, especially when the audience gets emotionally involved and you feel their feelings. You can only wallow in your own misery for so long without saying, &#8216;Wait a minute, I want a drink!&apos;&#8221;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Nelson acclaimed as a songwriter, but he didn&#8217;t write this one. It was composed by Fred Rose, whose country hits include &#8220;Crazy Heart,&#8221; &#8220;Don&#8217;t Bring Me Posies,&#8221; &#8220;Take These Chains From My Heart&#8221; and &#8220;Kaw-Liga.&#8221;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><\/div><\/p>\n<pre><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 900;\"><strong>[C] In the twilight glow I see her - <\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 900;\">[G] Blue eyes cryin' in the [C] rain.<\/span>  <span style=\"font-weight: 900;\">[C] When we kissed goodbye and parted<\/span><\/strong>\r\n<strong><span style=\"font-weight: 900;\">I [G] knew we'd never meet a- [C] -gain \r\n<\/span><\/strong>\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 900;\">[F] Love is like a dyin' ember - <\/span><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>[C] Only memories re- [G] -main.<\/strong><\/span>  <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 900;\">[C] Through the ages I'll remember - <\/span><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>[G] Blue eyes cryin' in the [C] rain<\/strong><\/span>\r\n\r\nINSERT VIOLIN PART HERE - ONE TIME THROUGH WITH VERSE CHORDS\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 900;\">[F] Love is like a dyin' ember - <\/span><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>[C] Only memories re- [G] -main.<\/strong><\/span>  <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 900;\">[C] Through the ages I'll remember - <\/span><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>[G] Blue eyes cryin' in the [C] rain<\/strong><\/span>\r\n\r\n<strong>[C] Now my hair has turned to silver - <\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 900;\">[G] All my life I've loved in [C] vain. <\/span>  [C] I can see her star in heaven - <\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 900;\">[G] Blue eyes crying in the [C] rain<\/span><\/strong>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 900;\">[F] Some day when we meet up yonder,  <\/span><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 900;\">[C] We'll stroll hand in hand [G] again.\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 900;\">[C] In a land that knows no partin' - <\/span><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 900;\">[G] Blue eyes cryin' in the [C] rain <\/span><\/strong><\/span>\r\n<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 900;\">[G] Blue eyes cryin' in the [C] rain.<\/span>\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/span><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>jim plaster https:\/\/youtu.be\/noJYrfs9IwI by Fred Rosey :: Key of C :: :: [C] In the twilight glow I see her &#8211; [G] Blue eyes cryin&#8217; in the [C] rain. [C] When we kissed goodbye and parted I [G] knew we&#8217;d never meet a- [C] -gain [F] Love is like a &hellip; <span class=\"more-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/blue-eyes-cryin-in-the-rain\/\" class=\"more-link\">CLICK TO VIEW SONG<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Blue Eyes Cryin&#8217; in the Rain<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,120,133,126,265,56,116,117,115,68,131,97,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3-chords","category-perflive","category-baritone-bill","category-bass-guitar-night","category-best-songs","category-country-western","category-live-baritone","category-live-piano","category-live-tenor","category-love-songs","category-power-outage","category-rainy-day","category-violin-parts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29837,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions\/29837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}