Helene

Water rising down below

Water rising down below

Everywhere I look

Everywhere I go

Water rising down below

Drove on down to the riverside

Hung my head down and cried

A foot a minute came

All this rain

Water rising down below

Oh, I thought that storm would pass

Oh Lord, I thought that storm would pass

Eight hundred thousand trees down

All over the ground

Oh Lord, I thought that storm would pass

Water rose for thirty days

Nobody had water in their sinks for thirty days

Hurricane Helene did hit, 

Everybody did quit

Water rising down below 

Wandered five miles down Reems Creek

The road too torn up and broken to speak

All the houses flooded down

From the watershed to the ground

The water rising to my door

Now everybody came to stay at this little house

Oh, the forest in the backyard, it held us now

We were seven people deep

Ain't nobody really sleep

The water came down below

Oh, the water came down below

Oh, the water came down below

It was the year twenty-four

September broke down the door

Oh, the waters came down below

Water rising down below

Water rising down below

Everywhere I look

Everywhere I go

Water rising down below

Take us home

Mmmhmm