Here Comes The Water Songtext
von Chuck Pyle

In white man′s history there'd never
Been a flood in the Big Thompson Canyon
On a cool July evening in 1976 eleven inches of rain fell
In less than an hour
And a thirty foot wall of mud and water came down the canyon
The highway patrolman was told to seek higher ground
Instead he turned his car and raced the waters down the canyon
Saving many people′s lives before it caught him

Listening to two highway patrolmen talk about the flood
I overheard them saying that his last words were
"My car won't move
The mud is up to the windows
Here comes the water"
This is to Kenneth Purdy wherever he may be


Just about sundown it got strange
Coming off the prairie like the tide
Spilling down in never summer rains
Oh bad wind on a nighttime ride
Fireballs on the telephone wires
Heat lightning all over the park
Somewhere in the distance there's a fire
Rains begin it gets dark
Three feet of water running the street

Picking up speed picking up power
There where the two rivers meet
It hit fifty miles an hour
Nowhere for the water to go but down
The Big Thompson it did roll
Everyone in Estes Park town
Listening and heard it on the radio

Here comes the water

Patrolman Purdy number 213
Racing the canyon like a dash
Warning everybody by the stream
Turned in time to see the splash
10-33 My car won′t move
And so everyone could hear
Mud is up to the windows
And just a trace of fear

Here comes the water


213 What′s your location over
213 Do you copy over
213 Do you copy do you read over
Through all channels we have a mayday condition here
Mayday what is your 10-20 over
Mayday do you copy do you read over

Mayday come back mayday come back
Mayday come back
Come back mayday
Mayday come back
Mayday come back
Mayday come back
Mayday mayday come back
Mayday mayday come back
Mayday mayday come back
Mayday mayday come back

Here comes the water

Come back mayday