From the sheet music at the University of Wisconsin, Madison:


LOST IN THE FLOOD^[1]
DRIFTING THERE, O, GOD KNOWS WHERE^[2]
Words by Neva Parkhill Prentice, music by H. W. Fairbank. ©1889.
“Commemorative of the Awful Catastrophe at Johnstown, Pa., May 31st, 1889.”

1. Over the brow of the mountain, shadows are falling today,
For the waters are loosed at their fountain, and the death-wave has swept on its way.
There’s a wail of woe where the waters flow and the mother with her babe on her breast
Is drifting there, O, God knows where, drifting down to her death.

CHORUS: O, the sweep of the raging deep, and the cry of the saved on the strand,
For the lost who lie where the waves roll high ‘neath the wreck and the drifting sand.

2. Over the brow of the mountain, madly the wild torrents leap,
And the fierce hungry billows are mounting the banks where the fair hamlets sleep,
And the little child with its brow so mild, and the hero who is sturdy and brave,
They are drifting there, O, God knows where, drifting down to their grave.

3. Over the brow of the mountain, sunlight shall fall as of yore,
And the glad waves shall sing at their fountain, but the lost they shall greet nevermore.
In ev’ry surge there’s a fun’ral dirge for the mother with her babe on her breast
Who is drifting there, O, God knows where, drifting down to her death.

4. Under the tide that is flowing, thousands are lying at rest,
And over them soft breezes sighing as they chant o’er each billowy crest.
They are fast asleep in thy arms, O deep, but a newer light shall shine from thy wave.
They are drifting there, O, God knows where, drifting down to their grave.

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1 Title as given on the sheet music cover.
2 Title as given at the top of page 1 of the sheet music.