It was dark as midnight and ev'rything was still It was dark as midnight and ev'rything was still Thousand of people, ooh-hoo, tryin' to make it to the hills I'm gonna tell you people the strangest thing I ever seen I'm gonna tell you people the strangest thing I ever seen It was cats and dogs on housetops, ooh-hoo, floatin' down the stream There was thousand o' people on the hills, didn't have no place stay There was thousand people on the hills, didn't have no place stay They was watchin' that water that was takin' their houses away It was cold and it's rainin', some people didn't have shoes on their feet It was cold and it's rainin', some people didn't have no shoes on their feet Women and children cryin', ooh-hoo, because they didn't have a thing to eat I'm gonna build me a house in the mountains, in the highest mountain I know I'm gonna build me a house in the mountains, in the highest mountain I know So I won't have to worry, ooh-hoo, 'bout the high water and floods no mo'