"The Great Flood of '93" genre: Folk
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	CD: Lonely Boy Blue   Label: Bargain Basement Productions Credits: Written Produced and performed by Warren Wagner
	Story Behind the Song In 1993 48% of the county in Missouri where I live was under water. Seemed like a natural subject for a folk song. Lyrics The Great Flood of '93 Vs. 1 Well the water fell down and the water rose up Throught the warmth of '93 And filled every space that was low in the ground Despite dyke damn or levee It splashed and it crashed and it crushed in it's path Everything that the people knew And it carried away like a child at play Their dreams and their memories too. Vs. 2 Now the farmers had planted their crops in the soil As the thunder started to peal But their hope for a harvest was soon washed away As the water covered their fields It spilled and then filled every space men had tilled As though it had made up it's mind To make pristine what man had seen As his legacy proud and fine Vs. 3 ALong all the rivers throughout the Midwest The towns were struck with fear As the sand bags were filled while the levees gave way And the water climbed ever near It came and laid claim to space long ago drained Shouting what gives you the right To take what's been mine for eons in time You can't have it without a fight Vs. 4 And while the flood water ran over the earth 16000 square miles drowned 12 billion in damge the tally run up And forty eight people brought down So wide was the tide that across side to side 7 miles it measured one day And too many tears to be counted were shed As it went along it's way Vs. 5 And yet we still build in the river's domain Have we learned our lessons that well Or are we to proud to admit our defeat At the thands of this watery hell In time we'll define the great rivers last line But as yet we're to blind to see What this patient disaster should teach us all The great flood of '93 The great flood of '93 The great flood of '93

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