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 lev é es done broke
And there ain't nothing they gonna 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
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 get back to you
My old papa said it
Sometimes you just 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
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
The levee broke way down in Plaquemine
The levee broke down in a Montegut
The levee broke
Way over to the 9th ward
The levee broke
Way down in St. Bernard
The levee broke
Way over in Gentilly
The levee broke
Way down in Arabi
The levee broke
Down in Pointe à la Hache
The levee broke
Way down in Belle chasse
The levee broke
The levee broke
The levee broke
Way down in New Orleans
The levee broke
The levee broke
The levee broke
The levee broke
The levee broke
The levee broke
The levee broke
