| If it keeps on rainin', levee's goin' to break,
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| If it keeps on rainin', levee's goin' to break,
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| When The Levee Breaks I'll have no place to stay.
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| Mean old levee taught me to weep and moan,
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| Lord, mean old levee taught me to weep and moan,
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| Got what it takes to make a mountain man leave his home,
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| Oh, well, oh, well, oh, well.
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| Don't it make you feel bad
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| When you're tryin' to find your way home,
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| You don't know which way to go?
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| If you're goin' down South
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| They go no work to do,
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| If you don't know about Chicago.
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| Cryin' won't help you, prayin' won't do you no good,
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| Now, cryin' won't help you, prayin' won't do you no good,
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| When the levee breaks, mama, you got to move.
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| All last night sat on the levee and moaned,
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| All last night sat on the levee and moaned,
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| Thinkin' 'bout me baby and my happy home.
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| Going, go'n' to Chicago,
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| Go'n' to Chicago,
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| Sorry but I can't take you.
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| Going down, going down now, going down. |