Sultana Lyrics

Coming like cattle across
Across an open field
Where scores of men were nothing
Nothing but skin and bones
A volcanic fury of
Of thundering noise
A shower of flaming coal
Shot into the night
Raining down on the
On the crowded boat

Which in moments was engulfed
Engulfed in hellish flames
Which was engulfed
In hellish flames
Too many man
Swam in the icy
Spring runoff
Spring runoff
Or burned with the ship and died in mouring on their long way back home
The burning wreckage
Began to drift
Slowly downriver
And hundreds of men
Died they died
In memphis sailors stood
Sailors stood on the decks
On the decks of u.s. navy
Of u.s. navy gunboats
They watched the reddish glow
From that huge dying steamer
From that huge dying steamer
That lit the northern sky
Engulfed in hellish flames
Huge dying steamer
That lit the sky
Too many man
Swam in the icy
Spring runoff
Spring runoff
Or burned with the ship and died in mouring on their long way back home
Too many man