My folks own the land round here   And our big old house now for some fifty odd years   We'd all seen a few rough days   But I never dreamed I'd watch it all get swept away      No one knows what causes angry rain   The water rushed right through this town just like a great big train   Years of hard work and memories   Are floatin? down big river on their way out to sea      After the flood   After the flood   The land it washed away   Felt like my flesh and blood      I'd rather be shovelin'   Through the slush and mud   Than to leave my home where I grew up   Life goes on after the flood      The Clover Inn Bar was hit pretty hard   The piano's lyin? in the street broken apart   My favorite old oak tree's rooted up   But I'll plant myself a new one after the flood      After the flood   After the flood   The land it washed away   Felt like my flesh and blood      I'd rather be shovelin'   Through the slush and mud   Than to leave my home where I grew up   Life goes on after the flood      A place to call your very own means so much   Though it's a little soggy   After all the water's gone   I'll scrub it clean and make it home again      A natural disaster can't hold nothin' on me   Their quakin' out west and freezin' back east   So I think I'll stick around   And show a little faith in a weary town      After the flood   After the flood   The land it washed away   Felt like my flesh and blood      I'd rather be shovelin'   Through the slush and mud   Than to leave my home where I grew up   Life goes on after the flood      After the flood   After the flood   The land it washed away   Felt like my flesh and blood      I'd rather be shovelin'   Through the slush and mud   Than to leave my home where I grew up   Life goes on after the flood