歌曲名 Galveston Flood

歌手名 Tony Rice

作词：John Duffey+Tom Rush

作曲：John Duffey+Tom Rush

It was the year of 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

Hell-fire and the wind began to blow

The trees fell on the island

and the houses gave away

Some they strived and drownded

others died every way

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 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 down

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

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 flood it took my mother

it took my brother too

I thought I heard my father

call 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

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

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