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Rye Cove Destroyed
By Same Tornado
The same tornado that hit Woodville destroyed the schoolhouse at Rye Cove, Virginia. A.P. Carter, a neighbor, was not one to let such an event go unrecorded, and composed this song. Tom Bledsoe, who attended the school some years later, remembers hoping the cyclone would come back, on a weekend. Oh listen today, a story I’ll tell, With sadness and tear-dimmed eyes, Of a dreadful cyclone that came one day And blew our schoolhouse away. When the cyclone appeared, it darkened the air And lightning flashed over the sky, And the children all cried “Don’t take us away, But spare us to go back home. ” Mothers so dear and fathers the same All came to the horrible scene. Searching and crying, each found their own child Dying on a pillar of stone. Oh give us a home far beyond the blue sky Where storm and cyclone are unknown, And there on life’s strand we’ll clasp the right hand Of our children in their heavenly home.
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