Sung by Mrs. Mary Faultz and Mrs. Phidela Hogan
Fayetteville, Ark.
July 16, 1960
Reel 378 Item 1
Collected by Jim Bob Wheeler and James Leonard
For M.C. Parler
Transcribed by Linda Humphrey
The Tornado of Sherman, Texas
Kind friends, if you will listen,
A story I will tell;
It's of the great tornado You all remember well.
It reached the town of Sherman On the sixteenth day of May,
And a portion of our city Was completely swept away.
The people gay and happy In their cozy little homes,
Little did they think so shortly They'd be forced to meet their doom. But alas! their days were ended,
Their lives were swept away;
Now beneath the sod they are sleeping Till the final Judgement day.The Tornado of Sherman, Texas continued
They saw the storm approaching, The clouds looked deathly black, And through our little city It made its dreadful track.
Soon as the storm was over,
The people gathered 'round,
And there the dead and dying Lay prostrate on the gound.
By the aid of kind physicians We dressed their ghastly wounds; This town has never witnessed Such a horrible afternoon.
The good people of our city You can safely be assurred Will nurse the sad afflicted Until health can be restored.