Big Wind

(Album: My Blue Ridge Mountain Boy - 1969)

Big wind big wind's coming
From daylight till dusk we've been a working in the dust
Picking cotton working side by side
Oh I can't forget I still remember yet the way my daddy looked at me and cried
Big wind's a coming listen to the humming hurry up now be quick don't stall
You know we can't be slow take the kids and get below
If we don't hurry it'll surely get us all

I ran across the field so scared my lips was scaled
To warn my mom to storm was on its way
Now I knew I'd won the race when I'd see my mama's face
And the way she looked at me and said
Big wind's a coming...

Oh but dad was on the cellar and by now the sky was yellow
The wind was blowing trees were falling
And outside I heard him crying and as he lay there dying
It seemed I could still hear him saying
Big wind's a coming...
Big wind big wind's coming