get the fuk'n led out!!!

[ivan]

If it keeps on rainin', the 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 got 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....

[Dechristo]

Good to see lyrics by Memphis Minnie.

[Dave_Schuldt]

I thought Skip James wrote that song.

[Double_E]

here's part of one of their less-cheery, and lesser-known, songs ("That's the Way") ..... and one of their many songs which mentions rivers.

 

 

 

And yesterday I saw you standing by the river,

And weren't those tears that filled your eyes,

And all the fish that lay in dirty water dying,

Had they got you hypnotized?

 

And yesterday I saw you kissing tiny flowers,

But all that lives is born to die.

And so I say to you that nothing really matters,

And all you do is stand and cry.

 

I don't know what to say about it,

When all you ears have turned away,

But now's the time to look and look again at what you see,

Is that the way it ought to stay?

 

 

 

may the countless victims of Katrina RIP.

my bro and his wife have some close friends who live in New Orleans, but fortunately they had the money, cars, and intelligence to get away in time... many didn't.

[Double_E]

another mournful Zeppelin song... "In My Time Of Dying"

(and yes, i DO realize they didn't write this either... but neither did Dylan, and no one seems to badmouth him for covering it on his first album.) why does Zeppelin always get so much heat for covering so many great blues songs? I think they rock.

 

 

In my time of dying, want nobody to mourn

All I want for you to do is take my body home

 

Well, well, well, so I can die easy [X2]

 

Jesus, gonna make up my dyin' bed.

Meet me, Jesus, meet me. Meet me in the middle of the air

If my wings should fail me, Lord. Please meet me with another pair

 

Well, well, well, so I can die easy [X2]

 

Jesus, gonna make up.. somebody, somebody...

Jesus gonna make up... Jesus gonna make you my dyin' bed

 

Oh, Saint Peter, at the gates of heaven... Won't you let me in

I never did no harm. I never did no wrong

 

Oh, Gabriel, let me blow your horn. Let me blow your horn

Oh, I never did, did no harm.

 

I've only been this young once. I never thought I'd do anybody no wrong

No, not once.

 

Oh, I did somebody some good. Somebody some good...

Oh, did somebody some good. I must have did somebody some good...

 

And I see them in the streets

And I see them in the field

And I hear them shouting under my feet

And I know it's got to be real

Oh, Lord, deliver me

All the wrong I've done

You can deliver me, Lord

I only wanted to have some fun.

 

Hear the angels marchin', hear the' marchin', hear them marchin',

hear them marchin', the' marchin'

 

Oh my Jesus... [repeat]

 

Oh, don't you make it my dyin', dyin', dyin'...

 

[studio Chatter:] "That's gonna be the one, isn't it? "

"Come have a listen, then. "

Oh yes, thank you."

 

speaking of music... gotta get out the door and get me down to Bumbershoot!!!! happy 3-day weekend, all.