The Week The River Raged-Sara Evans

[ti:The Week The River Raged] [ar:Sara Evans] [al:Original Album Classics] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Week The River Raged - Sara Evans (莎拉·伊万斯) [00:14.57]The river ran through howard county [00:17.77]It was the life blood of the land [00:23.24]It make fields of green tobacco [00:26.60]Aching backs and callused hands [00:30.03]Mama talked of a coming battle [00:33.25]That the women folk had to fight [00:37.07]Cause the good lord owned the daytime [00:40.09]But the devil seemed to own the night [00:49.01]Well it came up out of nowhere [00:52.15]From a dark and bitter seed [00:57.26]It was the roughest kind of roadhouse [00:59.95] [01:00.85]And a most unwanted weed [01:04.08]It drew the men folk like a magnet [01:07.55]The women knew what they had to do [01:10.97]So they put it in the hands of jesus [01:14.36]Cause they knew that hed come through [01:19.53]And the rains came and the river swelled [01:23.28]And the more they prayed the more it fell [01:26.36]When the levies broke everybody saw [01:30.21]The awesome power of god [01:33.24]Then the clouds rolled back and the rainbow came [01:37.16]To bring a brighter day [01:41.97]Cause when the flood hit howard county [01:45.40]All the sins were washed away [02:01.03]Now the mothers tell the story [02:04.15]Of the week that the river raged [02:09.49]Its the passing of the wisdom [02:12.82]To the ears of tender age [02:16.39]Better walk the straight and narrow [02:19.61]Better keep a watchful eye [02:23.11]Cause there's a symbol of the wrath of heaven [02:26.53]In every dark cloud in the sky [02:31.84]And the rains came and the river swelled [02:35.15]And the more they prayed the more it fell [02:38.65]When the levies broke everybody saw [02:42.10]The awesome power of god [02:45.39]Then the clouds rolled back and the rainbow came [02:49.20]To bring a brighter day [02:54.09]Cause when the flood hit howard county [02:57.47]All the sins were washed away [03:16.76]Then the clouds rolled back and the rainbow came [03:20.01]To bring a brighter day [03:24.92]Cause when the floods hit howard country [03:28.34]All the sins were washed away [03:33.53]Cause when the floods hit howard country [03:37.00]All the sins were washed away