"The Sky Is Crying" is a slow-tempo twelve-bar blues song that has become a blues standard. First recorded by Elmore James, "The Sky Is Crying" reached #15 in the Billboard R&B chart in 1960. Accompanying James (vocal and slide guitar) are his longtime backing band, the Broomdusters: J. T. Brown (saxophone), Johnny Jones (piano), Odie Payne (drums), plus Homesick James (bass).

Elmore James was credited as the sole song writer on his Fire Records single. However, over the years, several names have appeared alongside his on various reissues and covers of the song. In 1991, Elmore James' "The Sky Is Crying" was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in the "Classics of Blues Recordings - Single or Album Tracks" category.

The sky is crying, look at the tears roll down the street
The sky is crying, look at the tears roll down the street
I'm waiting in tears looking for my baby, and I wonder where can she be?

I saw my baby one morning, and she was walking on down the street
I saw my baby one morning, yes she walking on down the street
Made me feel so good until my poor heart would skip a beat

I got a bad feeling, my baby, my baby don't love me no more
I got a bad feeling, my baby don't love me no more
Now the sky's been crying, the tears rolling down my door