(Traditional)



Chorus

Wasn't that a mighty storm

Wasn't that a mighty storm in the morning, well

Wasn't that a mighty storm

That blew all the people away



You know the year of 1900

Children, many years ago

Death cakme howling on the ocean

Death calls, you got to go

Now Galveston had a seawall

To keep the water down, and a

High tide from the coean

Spread the water over the town



Chorus



You know the trumpets gave them waring

You'd better leave this place

Now, no one thoght of leaving

'Til death stared them in the face

And the trains they all were loaded

The people were all leaving town

The trestle gave way to the water

And the trains they went on down



Chorus



Rain it was a' falling

Thunder began to roll

Lightning flashed like hell fire

The wind began to blow

Death the cruel master

When the wind to blow

Rode in on a team of horses

I cried,"Death, won't you let me go"



Chorus



Hey, now trees fell on the island

And the houses give way

Some they strained and drowned

Some died in most every way

And the sea began to rolling

And the ships they could not stand

And I heard a captain crying

"God save a drowning man"



Chorus



Death your hands are clammy

You got them on my knee

You come and took my mother

Won't you come back after me

And the flood it took my neighbor

Took my brother too

I thought I heard my father calling

And I watched my mother go



Chorus



You know the year of 1900

Children, many years ago

Death came howling on the ocean

Death calss, you got to go



Chorus (Twice)