If it keeps on rainin',
levee's goin' to break,
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,
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,
All last night
sat on the levee and moaned,
Thinkin' about my baby and my happy home.
Going, going to Chicago... Going to Chicago...
Sorry, but I can't take you...