Tornadoes Lyrics - The Dirty South - Drive By Truckers

The clouds started forming at five o'clock pm 

The funnel clouds touched down 

Five miles north of Russellville 

Sirens were blowing, clouds spat rain 

And as the things came threw, it sounded like a train 

"It came without no warning" said Bobbi Jo McLean 

She and husband Nolen always loved to watch the rain 

It sucked him out the window, he ain't come home again 

All she can remember is "It sounded like a train" 

Pieces of that truck stop, litter up the highway, I been told 

And I hear that missing trucker ended up in Kansas 

(or maybe it was Oz). 

The Nightmare Tour ended for my band and me 

The night all the shit went down 

A homecoming concert, the night the tornadoes hit my hometown. 

The few who braved the weather were sucked out of the auditorium 

I can still remember the sound of their applause in the rain 

As it echoed through them storm clouds, I swear, It sounded like a train.