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I was standing on Point Peter, early in the morn Way down on the river, I thought I heard a horn I noted it was a steamboat and when she homed in sight I know, she took the left-hand where the Buffalo meets the White She passed the mouth of the rich land, a-ridin' on the swell She tore on through the clean break like a bull-bat out of hell My friend, she was a beauty, so long and tall and sleek She floated Old Mount Heresy, then she took up Davy's Creek I plump forgot to tell you, there was an awful flood The valleys all were water and the mountain-tops were mud I wondered if the time had come when the lovely Buffalo Was a deep and rugged channel in the Golf of Mexico -Solo- The pilot, he was crazy, he had moonshine on the brain He fired her up with pine nuts, then he took off in the rain Then rain, she got so heavy, the clouds, they got so low The steamboat left the creek and to the heaven, she did go The embers from the smoke stack and the rain forked from the wheel With lightning and with thunder, caused the boat to rock and reel And when she came to earth again, there was an awful sound The trees went up to heaven and the boat went under ground Songtexte You know, it must have happened, though it never could have been Don't tell me that you doubt it, if you want to be my friend She went down in the ground and pushed the earth away out far We call her Steamboat Mountain, you can see her from afar -Solo- Aus Songtexte Mania