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Muddy Water
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Song about the floods of 2001 and 2002 in McDowell County, WV.
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We are a bluegrass band that plays a wide variety of material but acoustically on bluegrass instruments.
South 52 is comprised of Stacy Grubb and Jessi Shumate on vocals, Charlie Davis on dobro and banjo, Steve Acord on fiddle and mandolin, Nathan Lawson on guitar, and Alan Johnston on bass and vocals. They play a wide range of songs from rock to country but do it all on bluegrass instruments.
Song Info
Genre
Country • Bluegrass
Charts
Peak #58
Peak in subgenre #4
Author
Alan Johnston
Rights
Yes
Uploaded
May 04, 2008
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MP3 4.7 MB • 128 kbps • 5:09
Story behind the song
The terrible floods that devasted the area in which I live is what inspired this song. The song has been covered by Don Rigsby and David Davis.
Lyrics
Muddy Water Well, it was on a Sunday mornin’ on the eighth day of July In the year of two thousand and one Way down in McDowell County in the West Virginia hills Our lives would change before the day was done The rain was steady fallin’ through the early mornin’ dawn And we wondered if it was ever gonna end The lightenin’ flashed around us and the thunder shook the ground And I could hear the devil laughin’ in the wind Well, the rain kept on a fallin’ and the creeks began to rise With a mighty force that we had never seen From Keystone down to Landgraff and from Kimball down to Welch Muddy water washed away our hopes and dreams (CHO) Muddy water can you hear me can’t you see what you have done Can’t you see you are not welcome here today We worked hard all our lifetime for what little bit we had Just to have you come and take it all away Muddy water came and washed it all away Some people blamed the coal mines and the timber industry And they called it the hundred year flood We said it wouldn’t happen for another hundred years As we shoveled up the garbage and the mud But less than ten months later on the 2nd day of May The thunder clapped and the rain began to fall And we ate the words that we had spoken way back in July Muddy water you made liars of us all We worked so hard to put back what you took away before Just to have you come and take it all again Ten thousand people cried….seven people died And I could hear the devil laughin’ in the wind Written by Alan Johnston © 2002
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Pinecats
May 22, 2008
What a great song this is...the beginning is so calm...then the bass and fiddle come in and the hair stands up on my arm! You and your daughter sound excellent together. The dobro sings sweet and the lyrics are emotion packed. Five Big Stars !! Love it!