mudcat.org: Add: Hold Back the Waters/Lake Okeechobee(McLean)

sj

Post to this Thread - Sort Descending - Printer Friendly - Home

Add: Hold Back the Waters/Lake Okeechobee(McLean)

DigiTrad:
HOLD BACK THE WATERS
THE DADE MASSACRE

	22 Jun 98 - 06:03 PM
harpgirl	24 Jun 98 - 08:16 AM
Joe Offer	24 Jun 98 - 03:41 PM
harpgirl	09 Oct 00 - 09:21 PM
harpgirl	09 Oct 00 - 09:22 PM
Joe Offer	18 Aug 20 - 06:22 PM

Share Thread

Lyrics & Knowledge Search [Advanced]
DT Forum Child
Sort (Forum) by:relevance date

DT Lyrics:

Subject: Hold Back the Waters - by Will McLean
From:
Date: 22 Jun 98 - 06:03 PM

Where can I buy the CD or tape for this song? It's about Lake Okeechobee and a hurricane in Florida.

Post - Top - Home - Printer Friendly - Translate

Subject: RE: Hold Back the Waters - Will McLean
From: harpgirl
Date: 24 Jun 98 - 08:16 AM

You can buy it from the Will McLean Foundation in Florida or from the Friends of Florida Folk. FOFF has a website...Will was an awsome ballader...harpgirl amidst the smoke...

Post - Top - Home - Printer Friendly - Translate

Subject: RE: Hold Back the Waters - Will McLean
From: Joe Offer
Date: 24 Jun 98 - 03:41 PM

Click here to go to the home page of the Will McLean Foundation.
-Joe Offer-

Post - Top - Home - Printer Friendly - Translate

Subject: DT Corr: Hold Back the Waters (Will McLean)
From: harpgirl
Date: 09 Oct 00 - 09:21 PM

HOLD BACK THE WATERS (Lake Okeechobee)
(Will McLean)

'Twas in the late twenties that there come a big flood,
It drownded four thousand, their graves was the mud.
'Twas nothing could withstand that great tidal wave,
And the ghosts of the vanished still cry from the grave.

CHORUS:
Lord, hold back the waters of Lake Okeechobee,
For Lake Okeechobee's blue waters are cold;
When the wild winds are blowin' across Okeechobee,
They're calling and seeking for other poor souls.
Oh, Lake Okeechobee's blue waters are cold.

The Seminole left there in haste and with speed;
Their wise words of warning were given no heed.
When the waters receded, Great God, what a sight!
Men, women, and children turned black as the night.
CHORUS

Now Lake Okeechobee is calm and serene;
The land all around it is fertile and green;
But the people get fearful when the wild winds do roam;
They look at the earth dam and they think of their home.
CHORUS

copyright 1992 Wakulla Music, BMI

Post - Top - Home - Printer Friendly - Translate

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: WillMCLean: Lake Okeechobee
From: harpgirl
Date: 09 Oct 00 - 09:22 PM

the version in the DT is incomplete

Post - Top - Home - Printer Friendly - Translate

Subject: RE: Add: Hold Back the Waters/Lake Okeechobee(McLean)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 18 Aug 20 - 06:22 PM

From:         Abby Sale
To:         Joe Offer
Title:         Hold Back the Waters filename[ HOLDBACK

Seems I left out the first verse when I sent this up to Greenhaus.
'D be grateful if you would mend it.
The first chorus comes, as typical, after the first verse.

Hold Back the Waters
by Will McLean

'Twas in the late twenties that there come a big flood,
It drownded four thousand, their graves was the mud.
'Twas nothing could withstand that tidal wave,
And the ghosts of the vanished still cry from grave.

Post - Top - Home - Printer Friendly - Translate

Share Thread:

Reply to Thread

Subject:	Help
From:

Preview Automatic Linebreaks Make a link ("blue clicky")

Mudcat time: 26 August 2:45 PM EDT

[ Home ]

All original material is copyright © 2022 by the Mudcat Café Music Foundation. All photos, music, images, etc. are copyright © by their rightful owners. Every effort is taken to attribute appropriate copyright to images, content, music, etc. We are not a copyright resource.