The Carter Family – The Cyclone Of Rye Cove (Guitar)

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Oh listen today and a story I'll tell,

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In sadness and tear dimmed eyes,

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Of a dreadful cyclone that came this way,

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And blew our schoolhouse away.

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Rye Cove (Rye Cove), Rye Cove (Rye Cove),

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The place of my childhood and home,

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Where in life's early morn I once loved to roam,

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But now it's so silent and lone.

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When the cyclone appeared it darkened the air,

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And the lightning flashed over the sky,

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And the children all cried, don't take us away,

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And spare us to go back home.

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Rye Cove (Rye Cove), Rye Cove (Rye Cove),

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The place of my childhood and home,

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Where in life's early morn I once loved to roam,

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But now it's so silent and lone.

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There were mothers so dear and fathers the same,

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That came to this horrible scene,

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Searching and crying each found their own child,

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  Dying on a pillow of stone.

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Rye Cove (Rye Cove), Rye Cove (Rye Cove),

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The place of my childhood and home,

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Where in life's early morn I once loved to roam,

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But now it's so silent and lone.