Old death the cruel master when the winds began to blow
The rain it was a falling and the thunder began to roll
Old death your hands are clammy when you've got them on my knee
The lightning flashed like Hell-fire and the wind began to blow
The flood it took my mother it took my brother too
It blew all the people away
The sea began to rolling the ships they could not land
Some they strived and drowned others died every way
Wasn't that a mighty storm
Galveston had a sea wall just to keep the water down
Rode in on a team of horses and cried death won't you let me go
But the trestle gave way with the water and the trains they went on down
But a high tide from the ocean blew the water all over the town
Wasn't that a mighty storm
The trains at the station were loaded with the people all leaving town
Wasn't that a mighty storm in the morning
I thought I heard my father cry as I watched my mother go
I heard a captain crying Oh God save a drowning man
The trees fell on the island and the houses gave away
