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( Boating disaster song lyrics )
HELL ON WATER
Copyright © 2004 - MickTerry.com

Mama Rat, pleading for a free ride.
Cap'n, he telling her, "no".
Mama Rat give him that evil eye:
Down in the sea they would go.
Second day out and the engine break.
Cap'n, he flag down a boat.
Hitching a ride for our goodness sake,
Cap'n, he leave us afloat.

Choc'late and peanuts and sardine cans,
only three days 'til they gone.
Day Number Five and the older men
dropping off one after one.
Coconut floating and all do share,
each of us getting a bite.
None of us living on more than prayer.
Some of us dying each night.

    HELL ON WATER.
    HELL ON WATER.
    HELL ON WATER, you playing with fire.

Some of the women have milk to give.
One of them say she refuse.
Some of the men do not let her live:
over the side and she lose.
People go crazy as days go by,
jumping off into the sea.
Parts of the dead laying by my side
looking not so bad to me.

    CHORUS

        It be thirty feet full of HELL ON WATER,
        a boat where you barely could breathe.
        Thirty feet full of devil's slaughter,
        a boat where nobody could leave.

Stinking hot sun, he play games with me.
I am look like I be bones.
Fishermen finding us in two weeks.
Coast Guard, they take us back home.
Eighty-six people set sail that day
under the Mama Rat's curse.
Thirty-one living to walk away,
not too sure which one is worse.
Eighty-six people set sail that day
under the Mama Rat's curse.
Thirty-one living to walk away,
not too sure which one is worse.

    CHORUS

Copyright © 2004  MICK TERRY  Silent Tree Music  All rights reserved
[ Reprinted here by permission of the composer-lyricist ]   BMI
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August 11, 2004:
55 illegal immigrants from Dominican Republic die
in 30' boat adrift for two weeks off Puerto Rico
after motor breaks & captain deserts.

To other immigration song lyrics:   MY BUTT HURTS
To other foreign language song lyrics:   SMARTERER
To other water disaster song lyrics:   FILLING THE TUB
To other boats/ships/sailing song lyrics:   LAND OF DREAMS
EXPERIMENTS COME
CLOSE, BUT NO HORSESHOE
To other cannibalism song lyrics:   & LEAVE THE DYING TO US
To other real life tragedy song lyrics:   LITTLE TIMMY (MCVEIGH)
(EMTs) SORRY, WE'RE ON OUR BREAK
(CHILD SOLDIERS) CHILDREN OF WAR
(9/11 FLIGHT 93) IF WE'RE GOING DOWN
(LITTLE LEAGUE DEATH) GOING BATTY
(9/11) THE DAY THE WORLD STOOD STILL
(SHARKS) OPEN WATER, BLAIR FISH PROJECT
(CRUISE DISAPPEARANCE) BELOW THE SURFACE
(DARFUR SUDAN GENOCIDE) NIGHT OF DYING MOON
(TRAIN COLLISION) I'M GETTING JUST A LITTLE BIT WORRIED
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