Through famine, flood and choking mud the ancient river flows

Bringing life and death, transporting friend and foe

To build their cities by its banks the hopeful people chose

Fortify the walls - the fortress grows

Secure within the confines of the stone

But what awaited them they couldn't have known

Healing waters of the Tigris

Ever flowing and all knowing

Healing waters of the Tigris

Washing over me

612 BC the Tigris floods and builds in turbulence

Pagan land of Nineveh - self-righteous over confidence

The rising torrent crushes stone and courses on its way

God's judgment on that fateful day - a terrible price to pay

The greatest city of all - Nineveh - with towering city walls

The awesome power of the swollen river Tigris - caused that massive city to fall

Healing waters of the Tigris

Ever flowing and all knowing

Living water of Jehovah

Balm of Gilead