Galveston Flood chords by Tony Rice

Verse:
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It was the year of 1900 that was 80 years ago
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Death come'd a howling on the ocean and when death calls you've got to go
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Galveston had a sea wall just to keep the water down
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But a high tide from the ocean blew the water all over the town

Chorus:
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Wasn't that a mighty storm
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Wasn't that a mighty storm in the morning

Wasn't that a mighty storm
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It blew all the people away

Verse:
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The sea began to rolling the ships they could not land
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I heard a captain crying Oh God save a drowning man
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The rain it was a falling and the thunder began to roll
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The lightning flashed like Hell-fire and the wind began to blow

Bridge:
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The trees fell on the island and the houses gave away
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Some they strived and drownded others died every wy

Chorus:
G
Wasn't that a mighty storm
C                    G
Wasn't that a mighty storm in the morning

Wasn't that a mighty storm
                C       G
It blew all the people away

Verse:
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The trains at the station were loaded with the people all leaving town
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But the trestle gave way with the water and the trains they went on down
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Old death the cruel master when the winds began to blow
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Rode in on a team of horses and cried death won't you let me go

Chorus:
G
Wasn't that a mighty storm
C                    G
Wasn't that a mighty storm in the morning

Wasn't that a mighty storm
                C       G
It blew all the people away

Verse:
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The flood it took my mother it took my brother too
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I thought I heard my father call as I watched my mother go
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Old death your hands are clammy when you've got them on my knee
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You come and took my mother won't you come back after me?

Chorus:
G
Wasn't that a mighty storm
C                    G
Wasn't that a mighty storm in the morning

Wasn't that a mighty storm
                C       G
It blew all the people away

Chorus:
G
Wasn't that a mighty storm
C                    G
Wasn't that a mighty storm in the morning

Wasn't that a mighty storm
                C       G
It blew all the people away
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