Lee County Flood
Willliam Elliott Whitmore
This song is played on the banjo on the album, but this matches up very closely. I play the D with just 3 notes
e a d g b 3
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and use a lot of palm muting throughout the song to try and give it the same kind of speedy banjo feel that the original track is played with.
D
The summer wind is blowing westward
A
over a field of fresh moWed hay
Let's go up to the barn loft
D
lay back and watch the sparrows play
I can see the evening sky
A
Let's close our eyes and fall asleep
D
and listen to the storm roll in
Chorus
G D
It sounded like a thousand horses' hooves
A
The sound of the pourin' rain on the old tin roof
G
The clouds were as black as the smoke form the stack
D
of an old coal-burning train
A D
Lay back and listen to the sound of the pourin' rain
D A
It ain't rained in weeks and now it just won't stop
All the rivers and the creeks
D
are getting fuller with every drop
If the levee holds it's ground
A
and keeps that water back
D
the Mississippi won't reach my little tar-paper shack
Chorus
-A- -A- -A- D
Well now the sun shines on the roof
and the moonshine is in the cellar
A
and what a happy feller I am
to finally see the sun
now that the rain is done
D
'cause I've had about all I can stand
I can't tell where my pond begins
A
and where my cornfield ends
The cattle done floated away
D
'cause the water's up over the fence
G D
Yeah, the water's up over the fence
G D
And it sounded like a thousand horses' hooves
A
The sound of the pourin' rain on the old tin roof
G
The clouds were as black as the smoke from the stack
D
of an old coal-burning train
A D
Lay back and listen to the sound of the pourin' rain x2