Shirley Collins - High and Away

High-o, high and away, tell me the tricks a tornado can play

High-o, high and away, tell me the tricks a tornado can play



Pick up my house and hurl it a distance

Dump it back down, and me on the floor

Hard as it hurt, it was nothing to losing

My man to a twister, oh ten years before



High-o, high and away, tell me the tricks a tornado can play

High-o, high and away, tell me the tricks a tornado can play



Pulled up another clean out of its footings

Dropped it and smashed it to matchwood, I swear

But in the henhouse, it rolled up to the treetop

The hen was still sitting, not an egg broken there



High-o, high and away, tell me the tricks a tornado can play

High-o, high and away, tell me the tricks a tornado can play



In the path of a twister there’s nothing will stand

Bowl a car down the street like an empty tin can



Our little post office, Mountainview, Arkansas

Carried away by a twister, oh lord

The letters returned to us down from Wisconsin

Showed just how far the mail fluttered abroad



High-o, high and away, tell me the tricks a tornado can play

High-o, high and away, tell me the tricks a tornado can play



I once had a box and a little book in it

With all of the words to the songs that I knew, then

One day it was lost, and I hadn’t the heart

No, I hadn’t the heart for to write them again

Written by:
Ian Kearey, Al Scott, Shirley Collins, Pip Barnes

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Lyrics © DOMINO PUBLISHING COMPANY

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