Duhks - Mighty Storm lyrics

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You know the year was 1900,

15 years ago,

Death came howling on the ocean

Death calls, you gotta go

Galveston had a sea wall

To keep the water down

And a high tide from the ocean

Spread the water over the town

Wasn't that a mighty storm,

Wasn't that a mighty storm,

Wasn't that a mighty storm,

It blew the people all away

You know the trumpets gave them warning,

You'd better leave this place,

Now no one thought of leaving,

'Til Death stared them in the face

And the trains they all were loaded

The people were all leaving town,

The trestles gave way to the water

And the trains they went on down, now

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Rain it was a fallin'

Thunder began to roll

Lightning flashed like hellfire

The wind began to blow

And the seas began to rollin'

And the ships they could not stand

And I heard a captain crying

Good God save a drownin' man

Death, your hands are clammy

You got them on my knee

You come and took my mother,

Won't you come back for me?

Death you cruel master,

When the wind began to blow

Rode in on a team of horses

Cried oh Death won't you let me go?

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