Mighty Storm-The Duhks

[00:21.69]You know the year was ninteen-hundred [00:25.21]Fifteen years ago death came howling on the ocean [00:31.90]Death calls you gotta go galveston had a sea wall [00:38.63]To keep the water down and a high tide from the ocean [00:45.43]Spread the water over the town [00:49.10]Wasn't that a mighty storm wasn't that a mighty storm [00:55.74]Wasn't that a mighty storm it blew the people all away [01:02.14]You know the trumpets gave them warning [01:05.81]You'd better leave this place [01:08.74]Now no one thought of leaving [01:12.17]Till Death stared them in the face [01:15.51]And the trains they all were loaded [01:18.93]The people were all leaving town [01:22.33]The trestles gave way to the water [01:25.45]And the trains they went on down now [01:29.50]Wasn't that a mighty storm wasn't that a mighty storm [01:36.22]Wasn't that a mighty storm it blew the people all away [01:46.30] [02:13.52]Rain it was a falling thunder began to roll [02:20.08]Lightning flashed like hellfire the wind began to blow [02:26.41]And the seas began to rolling [02:29.72]And the ships they could not stand [02:33.04]And I heard a captain crying [02:36.34]Good God save a drowning man [02:40.16]Death your hands are clammy [02:43.85]You got them on my knee [02:47.07]You come and took my mother [02:50.13]Won't you come back for me [02:53.67]Death you cruel master [02:56.50]When the wind began to blow [03:00.34]Rode in on a team of horses [03:03.73]Cried oh Death won't you let me go [03:07.76]Wasn't that a mighty storm wasn't that a mighty storm [03:14.00]Wasn't that a mighty storm it blew the people all away [03:20.56]Wasn't that a mighty storm wasn't that a mighty mighty storm [03:27.48]Wasn't that a mighty storm it blew the people all away [04:01.04]