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The Flood
© Jennifer Mansfield 1999

Used up soil
Don’t hold no rain
Don’t stop no flood
It’s fertile ground
For the cypress tree
And the prickly pear
And the white tail deer
In the Hill Country

Dried up soil
Makes rivers of mud
When the rain makes flood
In the Hill Country
And washes down
Through the creeks and the draws
And the Colorado
And the Guadalupe

When the Brazos peak
Hits Granbury dam
Over out-farmed land
Rain don’t soak it
And the rivers all rise
And they make a great flood
From the hills to the sea
Through the Hill Country

New Braunfels stands
Like San Antone
And Del Rio
On the Rio Grande
And maybe for awhile
The weather will hold
Hold a truce
Between the rain and the land
Between the rain and the land
Between the rain and the land

© 2004 Jennifer Mansfield Peal. All Rights Reserved.