A Flood On Our Hands Lyrics - Singles - Ely Joe

The rivers are swollen, we got a flood on our hands 

Get out the buckets and the pots and the pans 

Mama put the pictures in the old wooden boat 

Billy, get the baby and mama's overcoat 

There's high ground at Greene at the old Gristmill Store 

We can keep everybody dry if it don't rain no more 

We got a flood on our hands 

And the rains gonna keep comin' down 

Has anybody talked to sister, since the lines went down? 

She spent the night with Mandy on the low side of town 

I do hope she's watchin' on the outside tonight 

She ain't been herself, since she lost little Dwight 

You don't never miss what you ain't got 

Till you wake up some morning and you've lost the whole lot 

We got a flood on our hands 

And the rains gonna keep comin' down 

Thank God we're all together, that's all we really need 

You can not weather, you can plant new seed 

No life is spared to the ones who blame 

A God with out mercy, pride with out shame 

Like Noah of old was put to the test 

To see if his faith was deeper than the rest 

We got a flood on our hands 

And the rains gonna keep comin' down 

Mama get the shotgun and the pictures of dad 

Some day, we'll look back on everything we had 

We got a flood on our hands 

And the rains gonna keep comin' down