The Week The River Raged Chords

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TChe River ran through Howard County, it was the life blood of the laFnd

ICt made fields of green tobacco, aGching backs and callused hands

MCama talked of a coming battle that tFhe womenfolk had to fight

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'CCause the good Lord owned the daytime, but the Devil seemed to own the

night

WCell it came up out of nowhere, from a dark and bitter seFed

ICt was the roughest kind of roadhouGse and a most unwanted weed

ICt drew the menfolk like a magnet, Fthe women knew what they had to do

SGo they put it in the hands of Jesus, 'causeF they knew Gthat he'd cCome

through

ACnd the rains came and the river swelled

AGnd the more they prayed theC more it fell

WChen the levies broke everybody saw the awGesome power of God

TChen the clouds rolled back and the rainbow cGame to bring a briCghter day

'CCause when the flood hit Howard CoGunty, all the sinsC were washed away

NCow the mothers tell the story, of the week that the river raFged

ICt's a passing of the wisdom toG the ears of a tender age

BCetter walk the straight and narrow, better keFep a watchful eye

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'GCause thCere's a symbol of the wrath of heaven in every dark cloud in

the sky

'CCause the rains came and the river swelled

AGnd the more they prayed theC more it fell

WChen the levies broke everybody saw the awGesome power of God

TChen the clouds rolled back and the rainbow cGame to bring a briCghter day

'CCause when the flood hit Howard CoGunty, all the sinsC were washed away

TChen the clouds rolled back and the rainbow cGame to bring a briCghter day

'CCause when the flood hit Howard CoGunty, all the sinsC were washed away