Are we collecting blues songs about floods? Might as well include this one, then.


FLORIDA FLOOD BLUES
As sung by Ruby Gowdy, recorded 1928-07-11.

Water all around me, I ain't got no place to stand. (2x)
Hurricane done been here; killed all the crops on my land.

Blew down my log cabin; there's no shelter left for me. (2x)
Food is all exhausted; I'm as weary as can be.

That old tornado came upon us yesterday, (2x)
Mowing down in anger everything that's in its way.

Hear the wind a-howlin'; hear the rollin' thunder crash. (2x)
Lord, it looks like a racket(?); just see that lightnin' flash.

Watch the buildin's crumble, crumble like a piece of clay. (2x)
Knows the gods are angry; got the blues so bad today.