The Flood of 2010 (Band Version)

Rain came pouring down for days
The kind we we’d never seen
Like from the Book of Genesis
Swelling all the streams
Stones River and the Caney Fork
Rising by the hour
Water so much mightier
Than any human power

And up and down the Cumberland
They’ll say remember when
And then they’ll tell the stories of
The flood of twenty-ten

Creeping up on Lower Broad
Through honky tonks and bars
Forty feet above the banks
Right up to Gruhn guitars
Shutting down the Opry house
They had to move the show
Up to the War Memorial
It’s home from long ago

Chorus

Out there on the West side
Is were it hit us worst
The Harpeth rushed into the homes
Like some old evil curse
So many fled with nothing
But what their hands could hold
While everything they left behind
Was lost to mud and mold

Chorus

From everywhere the people came
To help each other out
And that we still can stand as one
Was proved beyond a doubt
The spirit of the city
Rose up to guide our way
Nashville’s brightest moment
Born from its darkest day

Chorus