1940 (feat. John Lucas)
Erin Williams Banks
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They sold every tree on the mountain From Seven Devils to Deep Gap Cut ties with the natives when They wouldn't give up their holy land Summer of 1940 When the hurricane came and stayed Five days of rain overfilled the banks The rivers took back everything Twenty-one inches of rain The mountains gave way In the attic mama's holding the babe But the water's rising Polly Ward's house down in Cove Creek Floated for three miles in one piece Richard Gilliam took a clothesline Tied his house to a cedar that night Ben Ward's saw mill was washed away His trucks were found near the Tennessee line Like a thief in the night the avalanche came Took all three girls from Eliza Greene Twenty-one inches of rain The mountains gave way In the attic mama's holding the babe But the water is rising And they all knew then if they wouldn't have sold their timber The landslides wouldn't have come Every bridge washed out by that cold dark river Would've still been there to hold them up Twenty-one inches of rain The mountains gave way In the attic mama's holding the babe But the water is rising
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