As it was coming over the hill-dad saw the tornado coming
he had been by the back door all evening looking
At the top of the hill, he saw it was dropping down
he’d been watching the clouds , When I saw his frown
He knew it was close he could see the trees sway
The temperature dropped quickly in a strange way
Round up all the kids and get them across the street
To the Creekmore’s cellar is where we would all go to meet
Both families met there it was the usual place just across the road
It had rained and we were standing on boards across the water below
it was dark we just had a lantern there wasn’t much air in the place
We were as close as sardines in a tin can standing face to face
When the wind howled I heard my mom started counting
as she did we said our name our fear began mounting
We all said our names as mom went down the row
Starting with Teddy down to me and and Robin then Joel should go
Mom got down to Robin and she said her name
we waited for Joel to speak up but nothing ever came
mom said to do it again so we all said our names
we got to brother Joel but it was still the same
we all knew at that moment there was nothing mom could do
he’s been left at the house we silently waited for it to be through
When it was over we saw the barn was missing
As our mama ran to the house we were all wishing
Joel had been outside in the back playing when we left the house
We followed mama in the door we were quiet as a mouse
A sigh of relief filled the air
When we saw brother Joel lying there
Sound asleep 💤
without making a peep
tornadoes on our hillside
made us always run and hide
- Brother Joel slept through a tornado at one time we didn’t mean to leave him there we thought that we had all the kids rounded up and put into the cellar
across the street at the Creekmore,s but we didn’t
We should’ve known mama always counted heads 123 456-789-10,11 12,13 and 14 and she did it over and over till she got the right number one of us was always doing something she didn’t usually get a 14 on the first count
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It was Joel❤️ But I remember Robin being left somewhere too.
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I didn’t know that. Lol
Joel was left once also.. and Teddy walked home from a basketball game the same night.. wild times on Orcutt Corner.. ha