Songs About Natural Disasters

[rarbass]

I am in need of a song that is about natural disasters and/or helping out those in need following natural disasters. Can anyone recommend a song or two that are written about this?

Vague description, but there isn't really much else I can say...

 

[Jeff K]

Well, these aren't NATURAL disasters per se, but disasters nonetheless.

Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot
New York Mining Disaster - (early) Bee Gees (Not sure if title is accurate)

 

[RWP]

Big Bad John.

 

[bassteban]

I feel the Earth move under my feet
The end of the world(Skeeter Davis, NOT REM)

 

[syciprider]

We are the world...

 

[cdef]

When The Levee Breaks - Memphis Minnie, &c.
Bad Storm Coming - The Downliners Sect
Bangladesh - George Harrison

 

[Basshappi]

Check out the Blues and Gospel music

A couple just off the top of my head;
Couldn't Stand The Weather - SRV
Texas Flood - SRV
Ain't No Hiding Place - traditional hymn

 

[Richland123]

Mother Country by John Stewart mentions the Johnstown Flood of 1889

 

[UncleFluffy]

Krakatoa - B-52s

 

[robd]

One Blue Sky - Sugarland

 

[Phalex]

Wasn't That A Mighty Storm James Taylor does a great version of it. It's about the 1900 hurricane that erased Galvaston TX.

Here's an impressive bunch of folks doing it:

 

[jd858us]

Cheepnis by Frank Zappa

 

[hbarcat]

BALLAD OF SPRING HILL (Spring Hill Disaster)
Peggy Seeger/Ewan MacColl- Stormking Music-. BMI

In the town of Spring Hill, Nova Scotia,
Down in the heart of the Cumberland Mine,
There's blood on the coal and miners lie
In the roads that never saw sun or sky
Roads that never saw sun or sky.

Down at the coal face the miner's workin'
Rattle of the belt and the cutter's blade
Crumble of rock and the walls close round
Living and the dead men two miles down
Living and the dead men two miles down

Twelve men lay two miles from the pitshaft
Listen for the drillin' of a rescue team
Six hundred feet of coal and slag
Hope imprisoned in a three-foot seam
Hope imprisoned in a three-foot seam

Eight days passed and some were rescued
Leaving the dead to lie alone
All their lives they dug their graves
Two miles of earth for a markin' stone
Two miles of earth for a markin' stone

In the town of Spring Hill you don't sleep easy
Often the Earth will tremble and groan
When the Earth is restless, miners die
Bone and blood is the price of coal
Bone and blood is the price of coal

 

[EBodious]

wrecking ball by gillian welch. its more of a quasi-autobiography, but it mentions the '89 loma prieta quake.

matter of fact, i was at dead shows in philly when that quake struck. the next nite the band played a "san francisco earthquake" song, but i don't recall details.

 

[nortonrider]

Johnny Cash - How high's the water, Mama? (Five feet high and rising)

 

[steamthief]

It's been mentioned already, performed by a different artist, but the first thing that popped in my mind was When the Levee Breaks by Led Zep.

 

[Jim Campbell]

what's that one by johnny cash.......xx feet and risin'.....pete seeger probably has a bunch

 

[Bob Lee (QSC)]

Wasn't That A Mighty Storm James Taylor does a great version of it. It's about the 1900 hurricane that erased Galveston TX.

Here's an impressive bunch of folks doing it:

That's the song that first came to my mind. Tom Rush and Nanci Griffith have also recorded it.

I don't know if "Louisiana 1927" would qualify. It's partially natural and partially man-made disaster.

 

[Number27]

how about taylor swift singing the national anthem at the superbowl?

[EDIT]nevermind.. i see you want a song ABOUT national disasters not a song that was a national disaster...

 

[rarbass]

Haha nice

Anyway thanks guys, ended up using We Are The World.