Sultana Songtext
von Beehoover

Coming like cattle across an open field where scores of men were nothing but skin and bones
A volcanic fury of thundering noise
A shower of flaming coal shot into the night
Raining down on the crowded boat which in moments was engulfed in hellish flames
Too many man swam in the icy 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 on the decks of U.S. navy gunboats
They watched the reddish glow from that huge dying steamer that lit the northern sky