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Did you read about the flood?
It happened a long time ago
Way in a little country town
Way down in Mississippi
It rained and it rained
It rained both night and day
Listen, people were worried
And, they began to cry:
"Lord have mercy, where can we go now"?
There was women and there was children
Screaming and crying: "Lord have mercy
In this great disaster
Who can we go to, now, but you Lord?"
In this great flood of Tupelo, Mississippi
It happened one evening, one Friday evening
A long time ago
It rained and it rained
The people of Tupelo was out in the farm
Gathering that harvest
A dark cloud began to rise
Way back on the western horizon
Mmmm-mmmm, wasn't that a mighty time?
Lemme hear you tell ’em about it, Albert:

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