– This folk-rock song, “Hurricane” is a true story about the Hurricane of 1935, the largest hurricane ever to make landfall in the United States. It hit Long Key in the Florida Keys and killed hundreds of people. Ernest Hemingway, living in Key West at the time, helped in the clean-up effort after the storm. Vocals are by rocker Barry Drill, in his best Neil Young-like voice. Narration is by the Jamie Alcroft, best known a part of the comedy team of Mack & Jamie. He tells the chilling tale of the moments before and during this giant hurricane. Hurricane (lyrics) Narrator: (spoken over music) It was two feet deep on Caroline Street when the storm blew the railroad down a storm with a grip on the Gulfstream wind and the wind blew the railroad down The summer was slow back in ‘35 on the railroad that went out to the sea only wreckers and spongers down in Old Key West well, it was the end of the line for me Chorus: (sung) Down in the tropics the summer winds play spinning the birth of a hurricane, hurricane, hurricane the ocean sees through the calm of her eye and joins the wild dance of the hurricane, hurricane, hurricane Narrator: Now the islanders knew a big storm would blow but they couldn’t imagine a hurricane soon the railroad met with the will of the wind and the wind showed no mercy The club car darkened, the thunder roared Flagler’s engines pounded, and the ocean soared and the eye of the storm was an hour wide on Matecumbe Key (instrumental) No one would see her wicked winds change as she crashed across Long Key the land became the will of the wind then she whirled back out to sea Chorus: Down in the tropics the summer winds play spinning the birth of a hurricane, hurricane, hurricane the ocean sees through the calm of her eye and joins the wild dance of the hurricane, hurricane, hurricane Well, the Keys recovered, and the road was built right where the tracks had been now I fish all day in these lazy blue waters but I’ll always remember that hurricane I’ll always remember that hurricane