""Lizzie and the Rainman" is as song written by Kenny O'Dell and Larry Henley which was a #1 C&W hit for Tanya Tucker in 1975. A narrative song as was typical for the first phase of Tucker's career, "Lizzie and the Rainman" relates how a rainmaker visiting a drought-sticken Texas town woos a skeptical local woman named Lizzie Cooper . The idea for the song came from the film The Rainmaker whose heroine is named Lizzie Curry. "Lizzie and the Rainman" has also been recorded by Billie Jo Spears and - as "Lizzy and the Rainman" - by the Cox Family.