Reminiscent Mood: Runaway

Due to Stormlizard's (John) post on Bonnie Raitt and her version of this classic song, I started hunting up the original version because I remember hearing it back home but being sung by a guy.

This when I found out it was Del Shannon who took it to #1 in 1961.

Obviously I heard it decades after  but I really had a great time listening (and grooving) to its different versions -  yes, even the one used as the theme song in NBC's Crime Story, and do me a favor, go take a look at Del singing this song at Little Darlin's http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OwkQPSsIxc

Runaway was #1  the Billboard Hot 100 songs in the spring of 1961.
It was written by Del Shannon and keyboardist Max Crook (whoa! listen to all those great solos on the keyboards!!). It is # 466 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

Lyrics:
As I walk along, I wonder
Oh, what went wrong with our love
A love that was so strong

And as I still walk on
I think of the things we've done together
Oh, while our hearts were young

I'm a-walking in the rain, tears are falling and I feel a pain
A wishing you were here by me to end this misery
And I wonder, I wa-wa-wa-wa-wonder

Why, why why why why why she ran away
And I wonder, oh where she will stay, yay
My little runaway, a-run-run-run-run-runaway

I'm a-walking in the rain, tears are falling and I feel a pain
A wishing you were here by me to end this misery
I wonder, I wa-wa-wa-wa-wonder

Why, why why why why why she ran away
And I wonder, oh where she will stay, yay
My little runaway, a-run-run-run-run-runaway
A-run-run-run-run-runaway, a-run-run-run-run-runaway