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It was the year of 1900 that was 80 years agoDeath come'd a howling on the ocean and when death calls you've got to goGalveston had a sea wall just to keep the water downBut a high tide from the ocean blew the water all over the town.Wasn't that a mighty stormWasn't that a mighty storm in the morningWasn't that a mighty stormIt blew all the people away.The sea began to rolling the ships they could not landI heard a captain crying Oh God save a drowning manThe rain it was a falling and the thunder began to rollThe lightning flashed like Hell-fire and the wind began to blowThe trees fell on the island and the houses gave awaySome they strived and drownded others died every way.The trains at the station were loaded with the people all leaving townBut the trestle gave way with the water and the trains they went on downOld death the cruel master when the winds began to blowRode in on a team of horses and cried death won't you let me go.The flood it took my mother it took my brother tooI thought I heard my father cry as I watched my mother goOld death your hands are clammy when you've got them on my kneeYou come and took my mother won't you come back after me? Aus Songtexte Mania