Lizzie and the Rainman

Lizzie and the Rainman is a country song, the fourth #1 single for Tanya Tucker, and her only single to reach the Billboard Top 40 (peaking at #37). It is an adaptation of a 1956 film, The Rainmaker.

The song tells of a traveling salesman/con artist who comes to a west Texas town, promising that for $100, he will bring rain. Using the same excuse as prosperity gospel preachers when their claims fail ("step back unbelievers/or the rain will never come"), and the same tactics as Native American "rain men", the people try to believe. But one lady, Lizzie Cooper, calls out the man as the fraud he is. Undeterred, the man now tries to woo Lizzie into joining him, claiming that he has delivered on his promise (at this point in the song, thunder can be heard).