A rocking blues on Modern Times based on "When the Levee Breaks", the 1929 song by Kansas Joe McCoy and Memphis Minnie.
The words
A man warns that the floodwaters are rising and the levee is about to give way.
A man watches as the river rises and warns that the levee is about to fail, the coming flood standing for both natural disaster and a life spinning out of control. Released the year after Hurricane Katrina, it inevitably recalled that flood. The verses toss together worry, love and sardonic remarks over a fast, rolling boogie driven by the road band.
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The words
A man warns that the floodwaters are rising and the levee is about to give way.
A man watches as the river rises and warns that the levee is about to fail, the coming flood standing for both natural disaster and a life spinning out of control. Released the year after Hurricane Katrina, it inevitably recalled that flood. The verses toss together worry, love and sardonic remarks over a fast, rolling boogie driven by the road band.
Lyrics on bobdylan.com ↗Connections
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