Galveston Flood - Tony Rice

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?