Name: When the Levee Breaks
Duration: P00H04M56S
Description: Part of Vix Bourne's series of rearranged country blues classics. For four string cigar box guitar. Memphis Minnie's 'When the levee breaks' Memphis Minnie.

When the Levee Breaks

from Rearranged by Victoria Bourne

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Part of Vix Bourne's series of rearranged country blues classics. For four string cigar box guitar. Memphis Minnie's 'When the levee breaks' Memphis Minnie.

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If it keeps on rainin', levee's goin' to break
If it keeps on rainin', levee's goin' to break
When the levee breaks I'll have no place to stay

Mean old levee taught me to weep and moan
Lord mean old levee taught me to weep and moan
It's got what it takes to make a poor woman leave her home
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 got 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
All last night sat on the levee and moaned
Thinkin' 'bout me baby and my happy home
Going to Chicago
Going down, going down now, going down
Going down now, going down
Going down, going down, going down

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from Rearranged, released February 8, 2021

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Victoria Bourne Bristol, UK

Achingly beautiful harmonies’ The Wire Magazine

From Electroacoustic, to folk rock. Victoria writes her own music and is also a member of the folktronica band Hangover Square, United Isolation Ensemble, and collaborations with Walt Shaw and Jim Tetlow.

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