Lee County Flood
Willliam Elliott Whitmore
This song is played on the banjo on the album, but this matches up very closely. I play the D with just 3 notes
e a d g b 3
- - 0 2 3 -
and use a lot of palm muting throughout the song to try and give it the same kind of speedy banjo feel that the original track is played with.
[D]The summer wind is blowing westward
over a field of fresh moWed [A]hay
Let's go up to the barn loft
lay back and watch the sparrows [D]play
I can see the evening sky
[A]
Let's close our eyes and fall asleep
and listen to the storm roll [D]in
Chorus
It[G] sounded like a thousand horses' [D]hooves
The sound of the pourin' rain on the old tin [A]roof
The[G] clouds were as black as the smoke form the stack
of an old coal-burning [D]train
Lay back and listen to the [A]sound of the pourin' [D]rain
[D]It ain't rained in weeks and now it just won't [A]stop
All the rivers and the creeks
are getting fuller with every d[D]rop
If the levee holds it's ground
and keeps that water [A]back
the Mississippi won't reach my little tar-paper [D]shack
Chorus
-A- -A- -A- D
Well now the sun shines on the roof
and the moonshine is in the cellar
and what a happy feller I [A]am
to finally see the sun
now that the rain is done
'cause I've had about all I can [D]stand
I can't tell where my pond begins
and where my cornfield [A]ends
The cattle done floated away
'cause the water's up over the [D]fence
Yeah, the [G]water's up over the [D]fence
And it [G]sounded like a thousand horses' [D]hooves
The sound of the pourin' rain on the old tin [A]roof
The[G] clouds were as black as the smoke from the stack
of an old coal-burning [D]train
Lay back and listen to the [A]sound of the pourin' [D]rain x2
Willliam Elliott Whitmore
This song is played on the banjo on the album, but this matches up very closely. I play the D with just 3 notes
e a d g b 3
- - 0 2 3 -
and use a lot of palm muting throughout the song to try and give it the same kind of speedy banjo feel that the original track is played with.
[D]The summer wind is blowing westward
over a field of fresh moWed [A]hay
Let's go up to the barn loft
lay back and watch the sparrows [D]play
I can see the evening sky
[A]
Let's close our eyes and fall asleep
and listen to the storm roll [D]in
Chorus
It[G] sounded like a thousand horses' [D]hooves
The sound of the pourin' rain on the old tin [A]roof
The[G] clouds were as black as the smoke form the stack
of an old coal-burning [D]train
Lay back and listen to the [A]sound of the pourin' [D]rain
[D]It ain't rained in weeks and now it just won't [A]stop
All the rivers and the creeks
are getting fuller with every d[D]rop
If the levee holds it's ground
and keeps that water [A]back
the Mississippi won't reach my little tar-paper [D]shack
Chorus
-A- -A- -A- D
Well now the sun shines on the roof
and the moonshine is in the cellar
and what a happy feller I [A]am
to finally see the sun
now that the rain is done
'cause I've had about all I can [D]stand
I can't tell where my pond begins
and where my cornfield [A]ends
The cattle done floated away
'cause the water's up over the [D]fence
Yeah, the [G]water's up over the [D]fence
And it [G]sounded like a thousand horses' [D]hooves
The sound of the pourin' rain on the old tin [A]roof
The[G] clouds were as black as the smoke from the stack
of an old coal-burning [D]train
Lay back and listen to the [A]sound of the pourin' [D]rain x2
