I hear "storm with water" in the Lomax field recording of Sin Killer Griffin. This is one of my personal favorite American folk songs which I've performed and recorded often, for example:
(studio recording with archival images)
(live performance at folk festival)

The lyrics that I sing are:

It was the year of 1900,
Many long years ago
Death came howlin’ on the ocean.
When Death calls you got to go.

Now Galveston had no sea wall,
To keep the water down
And a high tide from the ocean
Spread water all over the town

Wasn’t that a mighty storm?
Wasn’t that a mighty storm in the water?
Wasn’t that a mighty storm?
It blew all the people away.

Now the trumpets gave them warning:
You better leave this place
But no one thought of leaving there
Until Death stared them in the face

And then the trains they all were loaded
With people all leaving town
When the trestle gave way to the water,
And all those people drowned.

Wasn’t that a mighty storm?
Wasn’t that a mighty storm in the water?
Wasn’t that a mighty storm?
It blew all the people away.

And then the rain began a-falling,
And the wind began to blow
Lightning flashed like hell fire,
And the thunder began to roll

Death that cruel master,
When the wind began to blow
Rode in on a team of horses and I cried
“Death won’t you let me go!”

Now, wasn’t that a mighty storm?
Wasn’t that a mighty storm in the water?
Wasn’t that a mighty storm?
It blew all the people away.

The trees fell on the island,
The houses they gave way
Some they strained and drownded,
Some died most every way.

And then the sea began to boiling,
The ships they could not stand
I thought I heard a captain crying
“God save a drowning man!”

Wasn’t that a mighty storm?
Wasn’t that a mighty storm in the water?
Wasn’t that a mighty storm?
It blew all the people away.

You know the storm it took my neighbor,
It took my brother too
I thought I heard my father calling me,
I watched my mother go

Death your hands are clammy,
You’ve got them on my knee
You came and took my mother,
Why don’t you come back after me?

Oh, wasn’t that a mighty storm?
Wasn’t that a mighty storm in the water?
Wasn’t that a mighty storm?
It blew all the people away.

It was the year of 1900,
Many long years ago
Death came howlin’ on the ocean.
When Death calls you got to go.


I'll note that I had originally learned, and used to sing, "Galveston had a seawall to keep the water down, but a high tide..." until a Galveston native came up to me after a performance to tell me that their grandfather had been a survivor of that storm, and that in 1900 there was NO seawall; the seawall was built after that, which somewhat mitigated the damage of the similarly severe storm that hit Galveston in 1915. That information checked out; so on that basis, I changed my lyrics.