[00:20.97]You know the year was 1900,
[00:25.68]15 years ago,
[00:27.96]Death came howling on the ocean
[00:31.41]Death calls, you gotta go
[00:34.89]Galveston had a sea wall
[00:38.13]To keep the water down
[00:41.19]And a high tide from the ocean
[00:45.03]Spread the water over the town
[00:48.48]Wasn't that a mighty storm,
[00:51.96]Wasn't that a mighty storm,
[00:55.32]Wasn't that a mighty storm,
[00:58.44]It blew the people all away
[01:01.62]You know the trumpets gave them warning,
[01:05.37]You'd better leave this place,
[01:08.37]Now no one thought of leaving,
[01:11.07]'Til Death stared them in the face
[01:15.09]And the trains they all were loaded
[01:18.63]The people were all leaving town,
[01:22.05]The trestles gave way to the water
[01:25.26]And the trains they went on down, now
[01:40.59]chorus
[01:41.25]Rain it was a fallin'
[02:20.40]Thunder began to roll
[02:20.88]Lightning flashed like hellfire
[02:23.67]The wind began to blow
[02:24.45]And the seas began to rollin'
[02:29.91]And the ships they could not stand
[02:31.35]And I heard a captain crying
[02:36.21]Good God save a drownin' man
[02:40.11]Death, your hands are clammy
[02:43.86]You got them on my knee
[02:46.56]You come and took my mother,
[02:49.98]Won't you come back for me?
[02:53.58]Death you cruel master,
[02:56.31]When the wind began to blow
[03:00.21]Rode in on a team of horses
[03:03.60]Cried oh Death won't you let me go?
[03:06.21]chorus x2