Fool's Flood

Instrumental Intro

Verse 1

I painted Deputy Miller's tractor pink on a Tuesday dare

Sheriff said boy you got a gift for making trouble everywhere

Preacher sat me down with coffee and a forty-page sermon

I nodded like a saint and stole his sermon notes for fun

Chorus

The lawman and the holy man both know my name by heart

One wants me in a cell the other wants a brand new start

The lawman and the holy man can't agree on me

But neither one of them can fix what this town's about to see

Verse 2

Come the county fair the Ferris wheel started leaning left

The pie tent flooded and the mayor lost his Sunday best

I hollered from the fence line that the creek was running high

Everybody laughed till the water came and kissed the sky

Chorus

Whole town's in a panic and the band just stopped mid-song

The sheriff's out of answers and the preacher's getting wrong

The man they called a menace is the only one who sees

That a fool can read a river better than the wise can read a breeze

Verse 3

I grabbed the sheriff's radio and the preacher's folding chair

Told them both to trust a guy who's been the town's worst nightmare

We stacked the pews like sandbags and we herded every cow

Confusion turned to cheering when the water changed its mind somehow

Chorus

Hey now we're standing hey now we're alive

Everybody singing like the roof could touch the sky

Hey now we're standing hey now we're all one

The fool they never counted on just saved the setting sun

Verse 4

Sheriff shook my hand and said don't ever tell a soul

Preacher said the good book loves the ones who lost control

Missus Carter baked a pie and put my name in dough

The whole town danced till dawn and I finally felt I'd found my home

Chorus

Raise a glass for the reckless raise it for the odd

Raise it for the crooked path that somehow leads to God

We were never perfect we were only brave and loud

And the last dance at the county line belonged to the whole crowd

Instrumental

Guitar Solo

Fiddle Solo

Instrumental Outro