Intro: C5 A5 F5 C5 , C5 A5 F5 G5 , A5 C5 F5 C5 , A5 C5 F5 C5 G5

C5              A5
On the day the levee broke
    F5                   C5
The water did rise, The flowers did choke 
  C5                      A5
I sat in my living room , took one last toke 
       F5                    G5
Then I watched it all drift away 

       A5            C5             F5
Now my credit card's ringing up at thirty percent 
          A5     C5     F5
There's a man in India wondering where the money went 
    C5 G5     F5
But I can't pay 

     C5                 A5
So I sat on my roof In Lake Pontchartrain 
        F5                         C5
Singing woe to my chimney Singing woe to the rain
  C5                  A5 
A stranger came by I never caught his name 
   F5                           G5
He said he's rowing to the Rio Grande 

A5        C5          F5
Air Force One a blue streak in the sky
    A5         C5         F5                     
Mr. President, You can't afford to lie
      C5       G5         F5 
Cause I can't afford to pay

          C5  A5                F5               C5       
Hurricane Angel I'm lifting my eyes over Baton Rouge 
C5                         A5
Lift up your wings let me hear your voice singing 
        F5                         G5
Can you turn these black skies to blue again? 

    A5            C5          F5
I'm laying on the floor of a trailer at night 
     A5      C5        F5
with sixteen refugees waiting on daylight 
C5 G5     F5
I can't pay 

           C5                  A5
I caught a flatbed ford up to Baton Rouge 
          F5                       C5
with four worn out souls and one corkscrew
        C5                         A5 
You can drown New Orleans but you can't drown the blues
   F5              G5    
so bartender pour away 

A5      C5          F5
Exxon's having one hell of a year
A5            C5                  F5
three bucks a gallon man they're making it clear 
     C5 G5     F5
that I can't pay. 

Middle: C5 A5 F5 C5 , C5 A5 F5 G5 , A5 C5 F5 C5 , A5 C5 F5 C5 G5

C5     F5     A5
Lord, Lord, Lord
           F5                C5 
We haven't spoken in many a day 
  C5                     A5
I got myself in trouble down in the Ninth Ward 
        F5                      G5
thought I'd send a prayer your way 

A5    C5            F5
On my windowsill's A stack of insurance bills 
A5       C5        F5
A man in Delaware says I can't have the pills 
C5     G5     F5
until I can pay 

          C5  A5                F5               C5       
Hurricane Angel I'm lifting my eyes over Baton Rouge 
C5                         A5
Lift up your wings let me hear your voice singing 
        F5                         G5
Can you turn these black skies to blue again? 

    A5            C5          F5
I'm laying on the floor of a trailer at night 
     A5      C5        F5
with sixteen refugees waiting on daylight 
C5 G5     F5
I can't pay 

C5        G5      F5
Somebody should pay 

C5              A5
On the day the levee broke 
    F5                      C5
The water did rise and the flowers did choke 
  C5                      A5
I sat in my living room , took one last toke 
      F5                    C5
and I watched it all drift away