JOHNSTOWN
WHO KNOWS WHERE
THE LOVE OF GOD GOES
WHEN THE WATER
TURNS THE MINUTES TO HOURS
WHO KNOWS WHERE
THE LOVE OF GOD GOES
WHEN A RAGING
FLOOD DEVOURS
PATRICK DOWNS WAS
A WORKING STEEL MAN BACK IN 1889
BROKE HIS BACK FOR
HIS WIFE AND HIS GIRL, HIS JESSIE WAS DEVINE
TOE TO TOE WITH
HIS FELLOW STEEL CREW
JOHNSTOWN MEN WERE
TOUGH, JOHNSTOWN MEN WERE TRUE
WHEN THE WATER
TOOK AWAY THE LAND
CHORUS:
THE WATER ROSE AND
THE PEOPLE CRIED BUT THE FLOOD
KEPT POURIN’ DOWN
THE MOUNTAIN SIDE
2000 PROUD WORKERS
DIED
‘CAUSE THE OWNERS
OF THEIR STEEL MILL FUCKIN’ LIED
2000 PROUD WORKERS
DIED
‘CAUSE THE OWNERS
OF THEIR STEEL MILL FUCKIN’ LIED
PATRICK DOWNS WAS
SAVED THAT DAY
BUT HIS WHOLE LIFE
IT WAS WASHED AWAY
LOST HIS DREAMS IN
THE WATER
LOST HIS WIFE AND
HIS DAUGHTER
IT TOOK SEVEN DAYS
TO FIND HIS GIRL
BURIED HER AND HIS
WIFE ON OLD GROVE HILL
TOOK MORE THAN A
YEAR TO FIND THEM ALL
BROKE THE HEART OF
A TOWN THAT ONCE STOOD TALL
CARNEGIE AND
MELLON SAT PROUDLY IN THEIR LAIR
THEY WERE TOLD OF
THE DANGER BUT THOSE FUCKERS DID NOT CARE
THEY BUILT A NICE
LITTLE SAILING SPOT HIGH ABOVE THE TOWN
DIDN’T CARE ABOUT
A FLOOD DIDN’T CARE WHO DROWNED