Chasin' A Rainbow - Hank Snow (1959)



Rain starts to fall and the sun fades away
Memories start calling, another new day
It's hard to keep tryin' to reach for a star
With no-one beside me but my old guitar
But I gotta keep movin', I know how you tried
Chasin' a Rainbow 'till the day that I die

Just thinkin' over the years of my life
I can see proud moments, my struggles and strife
The days of good fortune, when a good gal was mine
How foolish of me to have left her behind
But I gotta keep movin', I know how you tried
Chasin' a Rainbow 'till the day that I die

My mind keeps on wanderin' over things in my past
The money I made, but couldn't make last
The vows that I've broken, the lies that I told
Mistakes that I've made in my quest for life's gold
But I gotta keep movin', I know how you tried
Chasin' a Rainbow 'till the day that I die

Now often I think of the things I have missed
All the girls that I knew that I never kissed
All the dares that were offered and never did try
Lost many good memories how foolish to try
But I gotta keep movin', I know how you tried
Chasin' a Rainbow 'till the day that I die

Of prairies and houses, I've left them behind
I had for my wish the best life of mine
From old California to the cold eastern sea
I've been through the southlands to old Tennessee
But I gotta keep movin', I know how you tried
Chasin' a Rainbow 'till the day that I die