After The Flood

My folks own the land round here

And our big old house now for some fifty odd years

We'd all seen a few rough days

But I never dreamed I'd watch it all get swept away

No one knows what causes angry rain

The water rushed right through this town just like a great big train

Years of hard work and memories

Are floatin? down big river on their way out to sea

After the flood

After the flood

The land it washed away

Felt like my flesh and blood

I'd rather be shovelin'

Through the slush and mud

Than to leave my home where I grew up

Life goes on after the flood

The Clover Inn Bar was hit pretty hard

The piano's lyin? in the street broken apart

My favorite old oak tree's rooted up

But I'll plant myself a new one after the flood

After the flood

After the flood

The land it washed away

Felt like my flesh and blood

I'd rather be shovelin'

Through the slush and mud

Than to leave my home where I grew up

Life goes on after the flood

A place to call your very own means so much

Though it's a little soggy

After all the water's gone

I'll scrub it clean and make it home again

A natural disaster can't hold nothin' on me

Their quakin' out west and freezin' back east

So I think I'll stick around

And show a little faith in a weary town

After the flood

After the flood

The land it washed away

Felt like my flesh and blood

I'd rather be shovelin'

Through the slush and mud

Than to leave my home where I grew up

Life goes on after the flood

After the flood

After the flood

The land it washed away

Felt like my flesh and blood

I'd rather be shovelin'

Through the slush and mud

Than to leave my home where I grew up

Life goes on after the flood