Lee County Flood Willliam Elliott Whitmore This song is played on the banjo on the album, but this matches up very closely. I play the D with just 3 notes e a d g b 3 - - 0 2 3 - and use a lot of palm muting throughout the song to try and give it the same kind of speedy banjo feel that the original track is played with. D The summer wind is blowing westward A over a field of fresh moWed hay Let's go up to the barn loft D lay back and watch the sparrows play I can see the evening sky A Let's close our eyes and fall asleep D and listen to the storm roll in Chorus G D It sounded like a thousand horses' hooves A The sound of the pourin' rain on the old tin roof G The clouds were as black as the smoke form the stack D of an old coal-burning train A D Lay back and listen to the sound of the pourin' rain D A It ain't rained in weeks and now it just won't stop All the rivers and the creeks D are getting fuller with every drop If the levee holds it's ground A and keeps that water back D the Mississippi won't reach my little tar-paper shack Chorus -A- -A- -A- D Well now the sun shines on the roof and the moonshine is in the cellar A and what a happy feller I am to finally see the sun now that the rain is done D 'cause I've had about all I can stand I can't tell where my pond begins A and where my cornfield ends The cattle done floated away D 'cause the water's up over the fence G D Yeah, the water's up over the fence G D And it sounded like a thousand horses' hooves A The sound of the pourin' rain on the old tin roof G The clouds were as black as the smoke from the stack D of an old coal-burning train A D Lay back and listen to the sound of the pourin' rain x2