The Carter Family - The Cyclone of Rye Cove lyrics

[Verse 1] Oh listen today in a story I tell In Sadness and tear dimmed eyes Of a dreadful cyclone that came this way And blew our schoolhouse away [Chorus] 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 [Verse 2] When the cyclone appeared it darkened the air Yet the lightning flashed over the sky And the children all cried "don't take us away And spare us to go back home" [Chorus] [Verse 3] 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 [Chorus] [Verse 4] Oh give us a home far beyond the blue skies Where storms and cyclones are unknown And there by life's strand we'll clasp this glad hand Their children in a heavenly home