Well, it rained, it rained, and the rivers began to rise Banks began to overflow thousands lost their lives So what a terrible flowing, flowing on and on There's thousands of people, have done lost their happy homes Well, the whistles began blowing, and the bells began to ring People running and screaming, but they couldn't do a thing 'Cause the water kept on flowing, flowing on and on There's thousand of people, have done lost their happy homes Well, the downtown floods out, the people, in an awful fix Something like that flood started in Pittsburgh, in 1936 The water kept on flowing, flowing on and on There's thousands of people, have done lost their happy homes Well, high water's here, high water's everywhere High water's here, high water's everywhere I believe if you go to China, you'd find high water there