Buffalo Creek

the sky was as black as the water
 and you could choke on the breeze
 and the coal miner's daughters
 they were shouting from the trees
 "come on come on
 and stop staring like a dead man
 come on come on
 baby take my hand"
 no goodbyes, no sympathy
 one by one they were gone
 lord I ain't never felt so weak
 since the day the damn broke
 down at buffalo creek
 "hey don't you know, we ain't got no place
 we ain't got no place to go
 hey yeah, don't you know, we ain't go no place to go"
 I feel as naked as the day I was born
 I was marked by a bad sign
 my daddy kicked the bucket in the second world war
 my momma drowned in the tears sent down by the lord
 they said "come on come on,
 you gotta find some higher ground
 come on come on
 you ain't got time to be standing around"
 no goodbyes, no sympathy
 one by one they were gone
 lord I ain't never felt so weak
 since the day the damn broke
 down at buffalo creek
 "hey don't you know, we ain't got no place
 we ain't got no place to go
 hey yeah, don't you know, we ain't go no place to go"
 I lost my momma
 I lost my kin
 in the black black river
 makes a man shiver
 again and again and again