Rainsville

Music/Lyrics: Don de Leaumont

For 100 days we sat and prayed for rain.

For 100 more we prayed that it would go away.

The dams are breaking at the seams.

There’s water everywhere.

The rivers rising, water’s got nowhere to go.

A bigger flood than Charlie Patton’s ever known.

There’s chaos in the city, would make Dylan loose his mind.

          The sign used to read “Welcome to Rainsville Town”.

          Population 1231 that number’s going down.

          People being swept away, by the angry river.

Run for higher ground the older people say.

Another 7 inches will be coming our way.

And the boats won’t be coming by, for another hour or so.

14 days of solid rain can make a man change his mind.

About which road he chose, to take in life.

Packing up everything, that hasn’t yet been damaged.

          The sign used to read “Welcome to Rainsville Town”.

          Population 1231 that number’s going down.

          People swallowed by the mouth, of the angry river.

I saw a sign in a yard, I saw it say.

“Rain go away, and come again not another day”.

There’s higher ground in Memphis, guess I’m heading out that way.

          The sign it used to read “Welcome to Rainsville Town”.

          Population 1231, there’s no one to be found…

          Another town swallowed by the mouth, of the angry river.