Chords for Kansas Joe McCoy and Memphis Minnie When the Levee Breaks - Famous 1927 Mississippi River Flood

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If it keeps on raining, love is going to break
_ [Eb] If it keeps on [Bb] raining, love is going to break
_ [C] And the water gonna [Bb] come and I'll have no place to stay _
_ Well, all last night I sat on the lever in the morn
_ _ [Eb] Well, all last night I sat on the lever [Bb] in the morn _
[C] Hanging by my paper and my [Bb] happy arm
If it keeps on raining, love is going to break
_ [Eb] If it keeps on raining, [Bb] love is going to break _ _
[C] And all these people [Eb] have no place [Bb] to stay
_ Now look here mama, what am I to do?
_ _ [Eb] Now look here mama, what am [Bb] I to do? _ _
[C] I ain't got nobody to care my [Bb] troubles to
_ I worked on the lever, mama, both night and day
_ [Eb] I worked on the lever, mama, both [Bb] night and day _
[C] I ain't got [Bb] nobody to keep the water away _ _ _ _ _
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Oh, crying won't help you, praying won't do no good
_ [Eb] I'm crying won't help you, praying won't do [Bb] no good
_ [C] When the lever [Bb] breaks, mama, you got to move _
I worked on the lever, mama, both night and day
_ [Eb] I worked on the lever, [Dm] mama, both night and [Bb] day
[C] The work's so hard to keep the water [Bb] away _
_ I had a woman, she was dutiful to me
_ [Eb] I had a [Gm] woman, she was [Bb] dutiful to me
_ [C] I'm going back to my [Bb] used to be _
Call me no lover, call me weeping moon
_ [Eb] If I'm mean, no lover, call me [Bb] weeping moon
[Fm] I'm going to leave my [Bb] baby and my happy home _
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