Have You Ever Seen The Rain By Smokie With LyricsSomeone told me long agoThere's a calm before the stormI know - It's been coming for some timeWhen it's over so they syIt'll rain a sunny dayI know shining down like waterI want to knowhave you ever seen the rainI want to knowHave you ever seen the raincomin' down on a sunny dayYesterday and days beforesund is cold and rain is hardI know - been that way for all my time'till forever on it goesThrough the circle fast and slowI know - and it can't stop I wonderI want to know...someone told me long agoThere's a calm before the stormI know - it's been coming for some timeWhen it's over so they sayIt'll rain a sunny dayI know - shining down like waterI want to know...I want to know...Smokie | BiographyOriginally formed in Yorkshire, England, in 1966, Smokie hit the British pop charts several times during the late '70s with updated psychedelic pop, influenced by the band's stay on Mickie Most's Rak Records as well as the writers of most of the band's hit material, Rak's Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman. Vocalist Chris Norman, guitarist Terry Utley, and bassist Alan Silson had played in the Elizabethans, but formed the band Kindness in 1968, with the addition of drummer Pete Spencer. The quartet recorded many singles during the late '60s and early '70s, but failed to show any chart activity until 1975. That year, signed to Rak Records and billed as Smokey, the band hit number three in the U.K. with "If You Think You Know How to Love Me." After another Top Ten hit, "Don't Play Your Rock 'N Roll to Me," Smokey became Smokie; during 1976, the group scored with three Top 20 hits, including the number-five "Living Next Door to Alice." Smokie hit number five both in 1977 ("It's Your Life") and 1978 ("Oh Carol"), but the band's chart run ended by early 1980, and following 1982's Midnight Delight, they disbanded. Both Spencer and Norman continued to work at Rak during the '80s, writing hits for several groups; they reformed Smokie in 1988, resurfacing with the LP My Heart Is True. Two more