Notes - Raining Cats and Dogs.


Raining Cats and Dogs was also a 'Jacob's Well' Song. Recorded at Both Pennine Radio and Radio Leeds in the early seventies.

The 'chucking it down' phrase is a bowdlerisation. The folk session version usually goes with 'pissing it down!'

The song was in part inspired by Marriott Edgar's 'thee ha'pence a foot' monologue, envisaging a 'great flood' in the upper Calder Valley! There is a reference to Halifax dialect poet John Hartley. (See 'The Jolly Beggar).

'Raining Cats and Dogs' first appeared in the Arvon Foundation publication of THE VIEW FROM WIBSEY SLACK.

Sequencing by Mal Laws.