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Tim Hus
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Red River Flood
Manitoba is a land of many lakes The prairie crocus make no mistake Riding Mountain and the Hudson Bay Way down south to the tall grass plains There's water in the fuel and water in the blood The later the melt the greater the flood You ought to see what it can be like Bring another pump and build another dike
Chorus: We've been sandbagging every night and day Just to try and keep the water at bay The River is a-rising and the Red's gonna flood We're standing our ground in the Manitoba mud
From Emerson and Morris and Ste. Agathe They said that it really was a-rising fast We're holding our own and holding our breath We're all just waiting for the river to crest There's water in the fields and water in the farms Up in the bins and up in the barns We're going under an inch at a time It's up to the cab on the big combine
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So there I was at the Grain Exchange down on mortgage and pain I couldn't find any higher ground so here's where I'm a gonna stay There's a sharp-tail grouse out in the field He says to the Grey Owl I'm getting' out of here Up the Assiniboine, up the Qu' Appelle They've been fightin' that river since Louis Riel
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That's about all and that's about it This land is flatter than a Bodewash chip Batten down your barriers and barricades That's how it is living on a flood plain We ain't gonna leave and we ain't gonna quit We've got the ring dike and we've got Duff's Ditch We'll be right here where the river flows Come hell or high water or both
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