The Sound of Thunder

The sound of thunder it kills
It echoes all through the hills
In this town in East Tennessee
That rumble surely should heed
Cause the sound of thunder it kills.

Now Mary was brought up just right
Taught to love and no one should fight
But the country had other plans
And in marched hundreds of men
And their boots thundered on high

On a hill on the left and the right
The men set up to fight
They fired their guns with a prayer
Such a bloody and desperate affair
And she could hear that thunder all night
A haze covered the hill
And the screams filled her with chills
When the shooting finally died down
She dared to walk into town
And the sound of thunder it kills

A pain in her side took her down
And her blood covered the ground
She whispered with her last breath
This town is cursed for my death
And the thunder echoed around

Cause the sound of thunder it kills
It echoes all through the hills
In this town in East Tennessee
That rumble you surely should heed
Cause the sound of thunder it kills
Oh, the sound of thunder it kills