Evans Sara - The Week The River Raged guitar tab

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The Week the River Raged

Written by: Sara Evans/John Bettis/Jim Rushing

CD: Sara Evans - Three Chords and the Truth

C F

The River ran through Howard County, it was the life blood of the land

C G

It made fields of green tobacco, aching backs and callused hands

C F

Mama talked of a coming battle that the womenfolk had to fight

G F G

C

'Cause the good Lord owned the daytime, but the Devil seemed to own the

night

C F

Well it came up out of nowhere, from a dark and bitter seed

C G

It was the roughest kind of roadhouse and a most unwanted weed

C F

It drew the menfolk like a magnet, the women knew what they had to do

G F G C

So they put it in the hands of Jesus, 'cause they knew that he'd come

through

C

And the rains came and the river swelled

G C

And the more they prayed the more it fell

C G

When the levies broke everybody saw the awesome power of God

C G C

Then the clouds rolled back and the rainbow came to bring a brighter day

C G C

'Cause when the flood hit Howard County, all the sins were washed away

C F

Now the mothers tell the story, of the week that the river raged

C G

It's a passing of the wisdom to the ears of a tender age

C F

Better walk the straight and narrow, better keep a watchful eye

G F

G C

'Cause there's a symbol of the wrath of heaven in every dark cloud in

the sky

C

'Cause the rains came and the river swelled

G C

And the more they prayed the more it fell

C G

When the levies broke everybody saw the awesome power of God

C G C

Then the clouds rolled back and the rainbow came to bring a brighter day

C G C

'Cause when the flood hit Howard County, all the sins were washed away

C G C

Then the clouds rolled back and the rainbow came to bring a brighter day

C G C

'Cause when the flood hit Howard County, all the sins were washed away

C G C

Yes, when the flood hit Howard County, all the sins were washed away