The levee broke Songtext / Lyric

Woke up Monday morning

And I saw it on TV.

High water flowing

In the streets of New Orleans



Called up the President,

Called up in Baton Rouge,

But all they said was the levées done broke

And there ain't nothing they could do.



The levee broke way down in Plaquemine,

The levee broke down in a Montegut,

Seems like the whole damn world is sinking,

I must be sinking too.

Somebody call out a warning,

Somebody come to my rescue,

Looks like I'm gonna have to start swimming,

If I want to make it back to you.






John Breaux said it

Time and time and again.

If we don't stop this Coastal Erosion,

We're all gonna fall right in.



I see it happening

Each and every day,

It's just like ole Randy Newman said

We all gonna wash away.



My old papa said it,

Sometimes you gotta take what you can get.

But if you love something and you want to keep it,

Better treat it with respect.



Seven generations,

Stuck here in the mud,

But the only way that I'll be leaving Louisiana

Is if I'm swept away in a flood.



The levee broke

Way down in Plaquemine

Way down in Lakeview

Way over to the 9th ward

Way down in St. Bernard

Way over in Gentilly

Way down in Arabi

Down in Pointe à la Hache

Way down in Belle chasse

Way down in New Orleans.