Wasn't That A Mighty Storm Lyrics - Other Covers - James Taylor

[Chorus] 

Wasn't that a mighty storm 

Wasn't that a mighty 

Storm in the morning 

Say, wasn't that a mighty storm 

Blew all the people away 

Well, Galveston had a sea wall 

Meant to keep the water down 

High tide from the ocean 

Sent water over Galveston 

[Chorus] 

Yeah, year was 1900 

Fifty long years ago 

Death came walking on 

The water that day 

Death calls, you gotta go 

Now the trumpets,they sounded warning 

Said it's time to leave this place 

But no one thought about leaving town 

Til death stared them in the face 

[Chorus] 

Right then the sea started boiling 

A thing that no ship could stand 

I thought I heard a captain crying out 

Somebody save a drowning man 

They had two trains loaded 

With people trying to leave town 

Tracks gave way to the water now 

And all of those people drowned 

[Chorus] 

I said the year was 1900 

Fifty long years ago 

Death came walking on the water 

Death calls, you gotta go 

I said Death, your hands are clammy 

You got them on my knee 

You came and threw a stone at my mother 

And now you're coming after me. 

[Chorus: x2]