Raining Down In Georgia

from Against The Grain by Moors & McCumber

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Raining Down in Georgia DeForrest/Moors/McCumber

IT WAS RAINING DOWN IN GEORGIA, THE FIRST WEEK OF THE FALL
THE RIVER STARTED RISIN’, ‘NEATH THE FURY OF THE SQUALL
AND THE LEVEE THAT THEY BUILT, BACK IN THE SPRING OF ‘81
STARTED LOOKIN’ LIKE IT WOULDN’T HOLD, WHEN ALL WAS SAID AND DONE

EVERY ABLE BODIED CHILD, EVERY WOMAN, EVERY MAN
FOUGHT THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT TO FILL THE BAGS OF SAND
WHEN THEY SAW WHAT THEY WERE UP AGAINST AT THE EARLY CRACK OF DAWN
THEY KNEW THAT IT WAS TIME RUN

[CHORUS]
THE WATER GIVES US LIFE, WATER TAKES AWAY
WATER OF BAPTIZING MAY SAVE,
WHEN IT GET'S A RISING IT'S A HIGHWAY TO THE GRAVE

STUBBORN STEPHEN JACKSON, AND THE WIDOW IDA BROWN
WERE HELL BENT AND DETERMINED, TO STAND AND HOLD THEIR GROUND
WHEN ALL OF EVERYBODY ELSE, EVACUATED TOWN
THEY STAYED BEHIND AND NOW IT’S ALMOST CERTAIN THAT THEY DROWNED

[CHORUS]
(SOLO)

WHEN THE WATER HAD SUBSIDED THEY WADED THROUGH THE MUD
TO FIND THAT EVERYTHING THEY OWNED WAS SWALLOWED BY THE FLOOD
THE TAVERN, THE STEEPLE, THEIR WAY OF LIFE WAS GONE
THE ONLY HOME THEY’D EVER KNOWN

[CHORUS]

[BRIDGE]
SO THEY HELD A LITTLE VIGIL THAT SEPTEMBER AFTERNOON
TRADING TALES ABOUT THE PLACE THE WATER HAD CONSUMED
THEY SWORE THEY’D FIND A WAY TO RESURRECT THEIR SODDEN TOWN
THEY PRAYED FOR STEPHEN JACKSON AND FOR MRS. IDA BROWN
[CHORUS]

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from Against The Grain, released June 1, 2013

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Moors & McCumber Boulder, Colorado

James Moors and Kort McCumber are Americana musicians who craft beautiful story songs that walk the line between rootsy folk and melodic pop. The two songwriters met at the Rocky Mountain Folks Festival in Lyons, CO in 2005. Sitting around swapping songs, they each heard something in the music of the other that just fit. The two have been performing and writing together ever since. ... more

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