The Cyclone of Rye Cove

The Cyclone of Rye Cove - The Carter Family

Oh listen today and a story I'll tell

In sadness and tear-dimmed eyes

Of a dreadful cyclone that came this way

And blew our schoolhouse away

Rye Cove Rye Cove Rye Cove Rye Cove

The place of my childhood and home

Where in life's early morn I once loved to roam

But now it's so silent and lone

When the cyclone appeared it darkened the air

Yes the lightning flashed over the sky

And the children all cried don't take us away

And spare us to go back home

Rye Cove Rye Cove Rye Cove Rye Cove

The place of my childhood and home

Where in life's early morn I once loved to roam

But now it's so silent and lone

There were mothers so dear and fathers the same

That came to this horrible scene

Searching and crying each found their own child

Dying on a pillow of stone

Rye Cove Rye Cove Rye Cove Rye Cove

The place of my childhood and home

Where in life's early morn I once loved to roam

But now it's so silent and lone

Oh give us a home far beyond the blue sky

Where storms and cyclones are unknown

And there by life's strand we'll clasp this glad hand

Their children in a heavenly home

Rye Cove Rye Cove Rye Cove Rye Cove

The place of my childhood and home

Where in life's early morn I once loved to roam

But now it's so silent and lone