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Intro

On the day the levee broke

 The water did rise, The flowers did choke

 I sat in my living room, took one last toke

 Then I watched it all drift away

 Now my credit card's ringing up at thirty percent

 There's a man in India wondering where the money went

 But I can't pay

 So I sat on my roof In Lake Pontchartrain

 Singing woe to my chimney Singing woe to the rain

 A stranger came by I never caught his name

 He said he's rowing to the Rio Grande

Air Force One a blue streak in the sky

 Mr. President, You can't afford to lie

 Cause I can't afford to pay

 Hurricane Angel I'm lifting my eyes over Baton Rouge

Lift up your wings let me hear your voice singing

 Can you turn these black skies to blue again?

 I'm laying on the floor of a trailer at night

 with sixteen refugees waiting on daylight

I can't pay

 I caught a flatbed ford up to Baton Rouge

 with four worn out souls and one corkscrew

 You can drown New Orleans but you can't drown the blues

 so bartender pour away

Exxon's having one hell of a year

three bucks a gallon man they're making it clear

 that I can't pay.

Middle

Lord, Lord, Lord

 We haven't spoken in many a day

 I got myself in trouble down in the Ninth Ward

 thought I'd send a prayer your way

On my windowsill's A stack of insurance bills

A man in Delaware says I can't have the pills

until I can pay

 Hurricane Angel I'm lifting my eyes over Baton Rouge

Lift up your wings let me hear your voice singing

 Can you turn these black skies to blue again?

 I'm laying on the floor of a trailer at night

 with sixteen refugees waiting on daylight

I can't pay

Somebody should pay

On the day the levee broke

 The water did rise and the flowers did choke

 I sat in my living room, took one last toke

 and I watched it all drift away