Tornadoes - Drive-By Truckers

The clouds started forming 5:00 PM

The funnel clouds touched down five miles north of Russellville

Siren’s were blowing, clouds spat rain

And as the thing went through, I swear, It sounded like a train

It came without no warning said Bobby Jo McLean

She and husband Nolen always loved to watch the rain

It sucked him out the window, he ain’t come home again

All she can remember’s that it sounded like a train

Pieces of that truckstop

Litter up the highway

I been told

And I hear that missing trucker ended up in Kansas

(or maybe it was Oz)

The Nightmare Tour ended for my band and me

The night all the shit went down

A homecoming concert, the night the tornadoes hit my home town

The few who braved the weather were sucked out of the auditorium

I can still remember the sound of their applause in the rain

As it echoed through them storm clouds, I swear, It sounded like a train