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fact not missed by A.P. The tornado prompted him to write the lament “The Cyclone of Rye Cove”:
Oh, listen today, a story 111 tell
With sadness and teardimmed eyes
Of a dreadful cyclone that came one day
And blew our schoolhouse away...
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....
Rye Cove. (Rye Cove) Rye Cove, (Rye Cove)
The place of my childhood and home
Where in life’s early mom I once loved to roam
But now it’s so silent and lone.
The Carter’s recorded the song on a 10” RCA Victor 78 Record, V-10207, with the flip side containing “The Homestead and the Farm”. Price of the recording was 75 cents.
We are fortunate that tornadoes are a relatively rare meteorological event in the Blue Ridge area. As observation often confirms, the wide
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