HURRICANE HATTIE (from the singing of Nadia Cattouse, 1963)

I have heard of great disasters
Like the volcano and its lava
Even typhoons, I'll say my friend
Is a menace to Chinamen
Roaring floods down the river
Has caused us to shiver
But this I'll say openly
That Hattie was worst in all history

Chorus: From Puerto Rico it went past Jamaica
       Then they said it was heading for Cuba
       Just like a boomerang
       It turned on its course to Belize, my land

Come let me tell you of Hattie's power
Fifteen feet of boiling sea water
Two hundred miles an hour the breeze
Came to wipe out little Belize
And when I say it was whipping
Believe I ain't joking
Next morning, o me Lord   
They was taking dead people right out me yard

Chorus

It was me and me Hete Belle
How she saved I really can't tell
She was frightened like a mouse
Caught in a trap inside me house
Three o'clock in the morning
Me Hete was bawling
Please I can't take no more
Then she let go me hand and fell on the floor

Chorus