When the Fire Comes Down

Way back in the days of Noah

Water covered all this land

Then the great rainbow of promise

Started up on life again

And the Good Book tells of fires

That will fill the earth some day

Then the sinful will be screamin'

As this earth shall pass away

When the fire

(When the fire)

Comes down from Heaven

(Comes down from Heaven)

This old world

(This old world)

Will melt away

(Will melt away)

Millions then

(Millions then)

Will cry for mercy

(Will cry for mercy)

But it will be

(But it will be)

Too late to pray

Oh, this world is at a tremble

And it's rockin' to and fro

You can read it in the papers

Hear it on the radio

In the movies, they are showin'

Towns and cities, how they blaze

But there's hotter fire a comin'

If we follow sin's highway

When the fire

(When the fire)

Comes down from Heaven

(Comes down from Heaven)

This old world

(This old world)

Will melt away

(Will melt away)

Millions then

(Millions then)

Will cry for mercy

(Will cry for mercy)

But it will be

(But it will be)

Too late to pray

Texas City, Texas City

Oh, how awful was her fate

First she burned and then exploded

Now the story, we'll relate

Of the Winecoff in Atlanta

How she burned right to the ground

Of the great fire in Chicago

And the dead lay all around

When the fire

(When the fire)

Comes down from Heaven

(Comes down from Heaven)

This old world

(This old world)

Will melt away

(Will melt away)

Millions then

(Millions then)

Will cry for mercy

(Will cry for mercy)

But it will be

(But it will be)

Too late to pray