{"id":6944,"date":"1998-10-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1998-10-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"1998-10-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"1998-10-01T00:00:00","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=6944","title":{"rendered":"Mighty Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/images\/Mighty.jpg\" height=\"138\" width=\"126\" alt=\"Mighty.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"audio\">\n<div class=\"alignright caption\"><a href=\"?page_id=6069\">How do I download this Mp3?<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"audio_link\">Mp3: <a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/Mighty.mp3\">Mighty Day<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"about\">Commemorating the great Galveston Flood, which began on September 8, 1900. I recorded this song with minor differences in 1961, when I worked as accompanist for the Chad Mitchell Trio on their album, &#039;Mighty Day On Campus.&#039;<\/p>\n<p>We are now in the height of hurricane season and have already suffered loss from hurricane Georges.  A strong hurricane can do as much damage as a nuclear bomb, and should be respected.<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics-header\">Lyrics:<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics\">\nEm                               B7<br \/>\nI remember one September,<br \/>\nEm                                           B7<br \/>\nWhen storm winds swept the town;<br \/>\nEm                                  Am<br \/>\nThe high tide from the ocean, Lord,<br \/>\nB7                       Em<br \/>\nPut water all around.<br \/>\n        Em                                  Em7<br \/>\ncho: Wasn&#039;t that a mighty day,<br \/>\nA          Am<br \/>\nA mighty day<br \/>\nEm<br \/>\nA mighty day,<br \/>\nB7<br \/>\nGreat God, that morning<br \/>\n                                                       Em<br \/>\nWhen the storm winds swept the town!<\/p>\n<p>There was a sea-wall there in Galveston<br \/>\nTo keep the waters down,<br \/>\nBut the high tide from the ocean, Lord,<br \/>\nPut water in the town.<\/p>\n<p>The trumpets warned the people,<br \/>\n&#039;You&#039;d better leave this place!&#039;<br \/>\nBut they never meant to leave their homes<br \/>\nTill death was in their face.<\/p>\n<p>The trains they all were loaded<br \/>\nWith people leaving town;<br \/>\nThe tracks gave way to the ocean, Lord,<br \/>\nAnd the trains they went on down.<\/p>\n<p>The seas began to rolling,<br \/>\nThe ships they could not land;<br \/>\nI heard a Captain crying,<br \/>\n&#039;God, please save a drowning man!&#039;<\/p>\n<p>The waters, like some river,<br \/>\nCame a-rushing to and fro;<br \/>\nI saw my father drowning, God,<br \/>\nAnd I watched my mother go!<\/p>\n<p>Now death, your hands are icy;<br \/>\nYou&#039;ve got them on my knee.<br \/>\nYou took away my mother,<br \/>\nNow you&#039;re coming after me!\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do I download this Mp3? Mp3: Mighty Day Commemorating the great Galveston Flood, which began on September 8, 1900. I recorded this song with minor differences in 1961, when I worked as accompanist for the Chad Mitchell Trio on their album, &#039;Mighty Day On Campus.&#039; We are now in the height of hurricane season &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=6944\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mighty Day&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mountainsouthernus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8440,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6944\/revisions\/8440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}