RACHEL
The willows won’t be weeping
Beauty will be sleeping
If I go without Rachel.
I’d better look over my life,
see if she’ll be my wife,
I’d better get her tonight,
while the getting’s good.

‘Cause I know if I give her time,
she’ll see she don’t need to be mine
that she can make it fine
on her own.

But God!
You know about my loneliness
How I can’t stand only-ness
without Rachel!

And I know she’s perfect for me
and I know I’ll try to be
everything she wants
and everything she needs
Just please, Lord,
give us a chance.
Don’t let sweet Rachel
slip away
from only, lonely me.
--CRONIN DETZZ
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RACHEL
Written 8/26/84
Inspiration
My mother had a baby when I was already a young married lady.  Since my mother was such a hippie, she would joke that someday she'd have a baby and name it, "Velveeta" or "Alfalfa."  So when she called me on 8/26/1984 and said she had given birth and named her Rachel, I was pleasantly surprised.  The name had to have a poem attached to it, and the poem dictated itself to me as a country song.
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