Sometimes I recall nothing at all but the patter pelt sounds of rain coming down on the windows outside of my parents' house when I was a boy in a rainy port town And you know that it's true when I was walking from school in the rain and I was maybe 7 or 8 I splashed in the puddles and played with wet dogs chased ducks, hide and seek in the fog And I know those days are gone And you know that my mom she said take off your shoes at the door you'll have wet dogs and puddles no more you'll bathe and put on a clean change of clothes I'm sure that you'll catch your death of cold but then I didn't die so it came to be that I was supposed to keep my feet clean and dry when rainy days coming were seen mom said you'll walk straight to school and then you'll walk straight home after again but some things you can't deny so even today when I'm walking around in the rain and I've got somewhere warm to stay I'll splash in the puddles and play with wet dogs chase ducks play hide and seek in the fog and those days will never die