Black Water Rising

Black river is a-rising in the dead of night
See the lightning flashing, no dry land in sight Feel the wind a-blowing, hear the thunder roar Black river is a-rising into n1y front door
Grab the one you love the most, ain't got time to pack
Don't know if we'll make it out or ever make it back
With all we have to leave behind I don't know what we'll do The way it looks there won't be nothing left to come back to

Chorus:
Black river rising is all I see
Black river rising up over me

Black river is a-rising, been pouring down for days Storm clouds keep building, there's more rain on the way The levee couldn't hold it, was more than it could stand
Black river is a-rising to cover up the land

Roads have all but disappeared underneath the flood
Fields have all been washed away by rolling waves of mud
Clear water up above me, black river down below
I'm caught in the middle, I've got nowhere left to go (chorus)
Black river is a-rising, like some evil dream
Everything we planted here has floated down the stream
It's washed away the place I live and everything I own
Black river is a-rising to take away my home
Grandpa used to tell me 'bout that '27 spring
When a foot or more of rain came down And covered everything
Three feet deep down in the barn and up to his back door
That river's back to rise again but higher than before

(chorus)