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 It's been snowin' forty days and nights, lakes and rivers begin to freeze.
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 It's been snowin' forty days and nights, rivers and lakes begin to freeze.
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 Some places through my old hometown, water‘s up above my knees.


[Verse 2]
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 Storm begin risin', and the sun begin sinking down.
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 Storm begin risin', the sun begin sinking down.
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 I says, "Mother and Dad, pack your trunk. We ain't safe here in this town.


[Verse 3]
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When it lightnin' my mind gets frightened, my nerves begin weakenin' down.
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When it lightnin' my mind gets frightened, my nerves begin weakenin' down.
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And the shack where we was livin' begin movin' ‘round.


[Verse 4]
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 Women and children were screamin', sayin', "Mama why must we go?"
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 Women and children were screamin', sayin', "Lord, where must we go?"
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 "The floodwater have broke the levees and we ain't safe here no more."


[Verse 5]
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 And begin cloud as dark as midnight, keep raining all the time.
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 I say, "Oh, I wonder why the sun don't ever shine?"
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 And the way it keeps rainin' it's drivin' me out my mind.