"St. Francis Dam Disaster"

SUBJECT:

While this is regarding Southern California wanter system, Frank has made it clear that the song is a different topic than Olé Mullholand, regardless of what some people tend to think.

Frank fan, Bill, offers the following...
"Ole' Mullholand" and "St Francis Dam Disaster" may be about different subjects, but they are obviously both about William Mullholand! http://www.usc.edu/isd/archives/la/scandals/st_francis_dam.html http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/sel/services/eng95/dam/
The first is a tribute to the man who brought water to the desert. The second, a tragic american ballad about the event that is why no one else tributes the man who brought water to the desert.

LYRICS:
there was a well known water master man / he was the king / he could do anything / the st. francis dam disaster man / thought she was all right / until around midnight / because that water seeks her own / she had a desire to flow / she was looking for somewhere to go / she was a slave to the great metropolis / she was feeling choked / she pushed the wall 'till it broke / when they heard the great apocalypse / at power house number two / well, there was nothing they could do / because that water seeks her own / five and one half hours she would flow / she had fifty-three miles to go / a cascade down the santa clara way / near sixty feet high / now she's a mile wide / it was clear she was going far away / and whole towns were, too / a few got lucky in piru / because that water seeks her own / but four more hours she would flow / she had twenty-nine miles mores to go / she carried in her every kiind of thing / house, tree, telegraph pole / some say a thousand souls / at three am she gave santa paula a ring / she was still tenty-five feet high / under a peaceful sky / because that water seeks her own / but two more hours she would flow / she had nineteen miles more to go / it was a real bad night for little saticoy / el rio then montalvo / how many no one really knows / ventura beach was very scary, boy / humanity a pile / she went her final mile / because that water seeks her own / into the sea the water flowed / and now for forever she would go

LIVE: no. while Frank gets lots of requests for it, he doesn't play it live, saying he doesn't think he can remember all the words! As you can see from above, it is a bit long.

ACOUSTIC: no