[ti:The Flood]
[ar:Various Artists]
[al:The Complete Mercury Recordings]
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[00:00.00]The Flood - The Stanley Brothers
[00:04.44]Written by：Ralph Stanley/Carter Stanley
[00:08.89]Come listen good people
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[00:11.83]Wherever you are
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[00:16.79]And hear a sad story
[00:19.27]
[00:20.00]You've been waiting for
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[00:24.77]About the flood of '57
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[00:28.08]As it happened to be
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[00:33.16]In Kentucky Old Virginia
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[00:36.19]And East Tennessee
[00:39.60]
[00:41.46]How the rains came down
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[00:44.50]And we often had seen
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[00:49.53]To swim a broad river
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[00:52.70]Or some little stream
[00:56.75]
[00:58.04]But this one was different
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[01:01.18]And we soon realized
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[01:06.33]That the floods were raging
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[01:09.54]And we fought for our lives
[01:12.93]
[01:23.68]Many were afraid
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[01:26.18]As never before
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[01:31.29]As the high muddy water
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[01:34.76]Came in through their door
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[01:40.36]Some were left homeless
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[01:43.18]Their life savings gone
[01:47.20]
[01:48.29]But their lives had been spared
[01:50.88]
[01:51.66]And the cold rains came on
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[01:57.00]Little babies were crying
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[02:00.07]And others were sad
[02:04.27]
[02:05.49]For in all our lives
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[02:08.75]We'd seen nothing so bad
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[02:13.82]But the brave and the strong
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[02:17.26]Were there by the score
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[02:22.36]To help the sick and needy
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[02:25.78]To safety on the shore
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[02:30.90]How we all escaped it
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[02:34.20]I never will know
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[02:39.35]It must've been god's will
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[02:42.57]It was not time to go
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[02:47.80]And by the help of his mercy
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[02:51.15]Some managed to smile
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[02:56.42]And pass the disaster
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[02:59.78]While the waters run wild