When the Levee Breaks

VERSIONE DI MEMPHIS MINNIE
If it keeps on rainin’ levee’s
goin’ to break
If it keeps on rainin’ levee’s goin’ to break
And the water gonna come in have no place to stay
Well all last night I sat on the levee and moan
Well all last night I sat on the levee and moan
Thinkin’ ‘bout my baby and my happy home
If it keeps on rainin’ levee’s goin’ to break
If it keeps on rainin’ levee’s goin’ to break
And all these people have no place to stay
Now look here mama what am I to do
Now look here mama what am I to do
I ain’t got nobody to tell my troubles to
I works on the levee mama both night and day
I works on the levee mama both night and day
I ain’t got nobody keep the water away
Oh cryin’ won’t help you prayin’ won’t do no good
Oh cryin’ won’t help you prayin’ won’t do no good
When the levee breaks mama you got to lose
I works on the levee mama both night and day
I works on the levee mama both night and day
I works so hard to keep the water away
I had a woman she wouldn’t do for me
I had a woman she wouldn’t do for me
I’m goin’ back to my used to be
I’s a mean old levee cause me to weep and moan
I’s a mean old levee cause me to weep and moan
Gonna leave my baby and my happy home

VERSIONE DEI LED ZEPPELIN
If it keeps on rainin’, levee’s goin’ to break, [X2]
When The Levee Breaks I’ll have no place to stay.

Mean old levee taught me to weep and moan, [X2]
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, [X2]
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….