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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. |
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Wasn't that a mighty storm |
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Wasn't that a mighty storm in the morning |
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Wasn't that a mighty storm |
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It blew all the people away. |
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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 |
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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 way. |
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Wasn't that a mighty storm |
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Wasn't that a mighty storm in the morning |
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Wasn't that a mighty storm |
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It blew all the people away. |
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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. |
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Wasn't that a mighty storm |
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Wasn't that a mighty storm in the morning |
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Wasn't that a mighty storm |
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It blew all the people away. |
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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? |
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Wasn't that a mighty storm |
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Wasn't that a mighty storm in the morning |
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Wasn't that a mighty storm |
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It blew all the people away. |
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Wasn't that a mighty storm |
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Wasn't that a mighty storm in the morning |
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Wasn't that a mighty storm |
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It blew all the people away. |
