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
It's got what it takes to make a mountain man leave his home
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
When the levee breaks, mama, you got to move
All last night sat on the levee and moaned
Thinkin' 'bout my baby and my happy home
Going to Chicago, sorry but I can't take you
Going down, going down now, going down...