[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