"When The Levee Breaks"

[CountAllVotes]

LED ZEPPELIN LYRICS

"When The Levee Breaks"

If it keeps on rainin', levee's goin' to break,
When The Levee Breaks I'll have no place to stay.

Mean old levee taught me to weep and moan,
Got what it takes to make a mountain man leave his home,
Oh, well, oh, well, oh, well.

Don't it make you feel bad
When you're tryin' to find your way home,
You don't know which way to go?
If you're goin' down South
They go no work to do,
If you don't know about Chicago.

Cryin' won't help you, prayin' won't do you no good,
Now, cryin' won't help you, prayin' won't do you no good,
When the levee breaks, mama, you got to move.

All last night sat on the levee and moaned,
Thinkin' about me baby and my happy home.
Going, going to Chicago... Going to Chicago... Sorry but I can't take you...
Going down... going down now... going down....

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One of my favorite bands and oh how this song haunts me.

[jandrok]

1. Kansas Joe McCoy and "Memphis" Minnie McCoy.........

....did the original version. It's an old blues standard. Definitely one of Zep's best covers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_The_Levee_Breaks

[billyskank]

2. Yeah but

nobody could have anticipated that the levees would be breached. :shrug:

[nickgutierrez]

3. A Perfect Circle did a remake of this...

...and I've been trying to find out who made the original version for a while now. Thanks. :)