Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Galveston Flood, artist - Tony Rice. Album song Tony Rice Plays And Sings Bluegrass, in the genre Кантри
Date of issue: 16.09.1993
Record label: Concord, Rounder
Song language: English
Galveston Flood |
It was the year of the 1900 that was 80 years ago |
Death come’d a howling on the ocean and when death calls you’ve got to go |
Galveston had a sea wall just to keep the water down |
But a high tide from the ocean blew the water all over the town |
Wasn’t that a mighty storm |
Wasn’t that a mighty storm in the morning |
Wasn’t that a mighty storm |
It blew all the people away |
The sea began to rolling the ships they could not land |
I heard a captain crying Oh God save a drowning man |
The rain it was a falling and the thunder began to roll |
The lightning flashed like ****-fire and the wind began to blow |
The trees fell on the island and the houses gave away |
Some they strived and drowned others died every way |
The trains at the station were loaded with the people all leaving town |
But the trestle gave way with the water and the trains they went on |
Old death the cruel master when the winds began to blow |
Rode in on a team of horses and cried death won’t you let me go |
The flood it took my mother it took my brother too |
I thought I heard my father cry as I watched my mother go |
Old death your hands are clammy when you’ve got them on my knee |
You come and took my mother won’t you come back after me? |