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Flood of '81

from Badlands by A.S. Coomer & Z.P. Kunkle

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We left our home near Harper’s Ferry
The heat there got a little too hot
We decided to get back to our roots
And be where the revenuers are not
We settled on the Missouri outside of Yankton
And built the biggest still that we could
The people around town they were friendly
Yeah, the summer of ’80, it was good

Me and my brother were happy
Keeping those folks full of our shine
Going into town to see the ladies
But the Missouri never makes up her mind

The winter of ’81 was a rough one
It snowed like you never have seen
It shut down the town and the river
But by the end of March it hit 60 degrees
Hour by hour we watched that water rise
As we grabbed what we could for higher ground
Soon that water was you to our knees
And parts of the still could not ne found

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By evening that river was twice as wide
That copper pot started floating downstream
My brother grabbed our stiff and set out
Trying to hold on to our dreams
The next morning I started walking downstream
That river was angry and full
3 miles in I found that copper pot
But my brother and the skiff they were gone

<CHORUS>

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from Badlands, released June 28, 2019
Badlands #1-5 Written & Performed by A.S. Coomer.

James Kelly, Flood of '81, Estella's Lament, Eloise, & 3 Angels Written & Performed by Z.P. Kunkle.

Pickers, Singers, & Sinners on Badlands: A.S. Coomer, Z.P. Kunkle, Michael Joseph Peters, Vester Frey, Vivian Kunkle, & Rachel Coomer.

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