The Cyclone Of Rye Cove

(album: The Carter Family Volume 1 - 1927-1934 - 2002)

Oh, listen today and a story I'll tell
In sadness and tear-dimmed eyes
Of a dreadful cyclone that came this way
And blew our schoolhouse away

Rye Cove (Rye Cove) Rye Cove (Rye Cove)
The place of my childhood and home
Where in life's early morn I once loved to roam
But now it's so silent and lone

When the cyclone appeared it darkened the air
Yes, the lightning flashed over the sky
And the children all cried, don't take us away
And spare us to go back home

Rye Cove (Rye Cove) Rye Cove (Rye Cove)
The place of my childhood and home
Where in life's early morn I once loved to roam
But now it's so silent and lone

There were mothers so dear and fathers the same
That came to this horrible scene
Searching and crying each found their own child
Dying on a pillow of stone

Rye Cove (Rye Cove) Rye Cove (Rye Cove)
The place of my childhood and home
Where in life's early morn I once loved to roam
But now it's so silent and lone

Oh, give us a home far beyond the blue sky
Where storms and cyclones are unknown
And there by life's strand we'll clasp this glad hand
Their children in a heavenly home

Rye Cove (Rye Cove) Rye Cove (Rye Cove)
The place of my childhood and home
Where in life's early morn I once loved to roam
But now it's so silent and lone