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
