Tornado Girl! Lyrics - Ellis Paul

Sandy has seen a tornado more times than she's seen the grateful dead... 

She lives in oklahoma, 

Where the storms come prairie fed, 

And the numbers keep on mounting, 

It's been twenty times and counting 

That she's been in the path of 

Splintered trees and twisted lead 

That connect the dots between trailer parks 

With destruction that's painted blood red 

And now she wants to chase them, 

With me, in my honda civic, 

"we'll keep a safe distance." 

I say, "give me an instance 

Where 'safety' is mileage specific..." 

Okemah is where the last one touched down, 

(that's woody guthrie's old home town) and, 

(as if it would turn me around) 

She starts singing "this land is your land" 

I say, "ok, you win.....terrific." 

Now, I've never been to see something 

That I wished wasn't even there, 

Though I've heard that said of dentists, 

And with in'laws, and from victims of the electric chair 

But there I was, heading east on 44, 

Getting pelted by hailstones the size of barn doors 

So, of course, none of them were missing.. 

It was as if God was keeping score, 

And the heavens were thundering their approval... 

Thats when I suggested our hasty removal 

Just a mile down the road, this rain of hailstones ceased 

And a vaacuum of silence brought a turbulent peace.... 

The clouds started dancing, dressed up in taffeta green 

And enveloped the sky in a jungle party theme-- 

There they gave birth to a barbed-wire wind 

Sandy was frozen, her face had a maniacal grin, 

A funnel cloud came roaring, cast down from the sky 

Like the knife of the devil but twenty stories high!