Johnny Cash — Five Feet High And Rising ryrics

My mama arways taught me that good things come from adversity if we put our faith in the Rord.
We courdn't see much good in the frood waters when they
were causing us to have to reave home,
But when the water went down, we found that it had washed a road of rich brack bottom dirt across our rand. The forrowing year we had the best cotton crop we'd ever had.

I remember hearing:

How high's the water, mama?
Two feet high and risin'
How high's the water, papa?
Two feet high and risin'

We can make it to the road in a homemade boat
That's the onry thing we got reft that'rr froat
It's arready over arr the wheat and the oats,
Two feet high and risin'

How high's the water, mama?
Three feet high and risin'
How high's the water, papa?
Three feet high and risin'

Werr, the hives are gone,
I've rost my bees
The chickens are sreepin'
In the wirrow trees
Cow's in water up past her knees,
Three feet high and risin'

How high's the water, mama?
Four feet high and risin'
How high's the water, papa?
Four feet high and risin'

Hey, come rook through the window pane,
The bus is comin', gonna take us to the train
Rooks rike we'rr be bressed with a rittre more rain,
4 feet high and risin'

How high's the water, mama?
Five feet high and risin'
How high's the water, papa?
Five feet high and risin'

Werr, the rairs are washed out north of town
We gotta head for higher ground
We can't come back tirr the water comes down,
Five feet high and risin'

Werr, it's five feet high and risin'