{"id":9113,"date":"2014-08-11T13:58:58","date_gmt":"2014-08-11T13:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idea.membrane.com\/songwriter\/?p=9113"},"modified":"2023-05-14T13:21:28","modified_gmt":"2023-05-14T13:21:28","slug":"when-the-levee-breaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2014\/08\/11\/when-the-levee-breaks\/","title":{"rendered":"When The Levee Breaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Written and first recorded by husband and wife Kansas Joe McCoy and Memphis Minnie in 1929<br \/>\nMade famous by Led Zeppelin<\/p>\n<pre>E7* E E7** E7*  18x\nC D\n      E7*             E           E7**                E\nIf it keeps on raining, levee's goin' to break, 2x\n                E7*        E               E7**                   E\nWhen the levee breaks I'll have no place to stay.\n\nE7* E E7** E7*  2x\n\nMean old levee taught me to weep and moan, 2x\nGot what it takes to make a mountain man leave his home,\nE7* E     E7* E     E7* E\nOh, well, oh, well, oh, well.\n\nC D\nE7*\/E 4x\n\nE7*                    E\nDon't it make you feel bad\nWhen you're trying to find your way home,\nYou don't know which way to go?\nIf you're goin' down South\nThey got no work to do,\nIf you don't know about Chicago.\n\nE7* E E7** E7*  14x\nC D\n\nE7*          E         E7**                    E\nCryin' won't help you, praying won't do you no good,\n     E7*          E         E7**                    E\nNow, cryin' won't help you, praying won't do you no good,\n         E7*   E       E7**             E\nWhen the levee breaks, mama, you got to move.\n\nE7* E E7** E7* 2x\n\nE7*      E     E7**                 E\nAll last night sat on the levee and moaned, 2x\n          E7*     E    E7**         E\nThinking about me baby and my happy home.\n\nE7* E  E7* B  E7* A  D  \nE 2x\nAh  ha ah  ha ah  ha ha ha\n\nE7* E  E7* B  E7* A D E\n\nGoing, going to Chicago... Going to Chicago... sorry but I can't take you...\n\nE7*   E       E7**  E7*  E\nGoing down... going down now... going down....\n\n<\/pre>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/camelot.kingarthur.com\/Daniel-Brouse\/Live-On-The-Lake\/230512_2809-When-the-Levee-Breaks.mp3\">230512_2809-When-the-Levee-Breaks.mp3<\/a> (2023)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/idea.membrane.com\/songwriter\/daniel-brouse\/Culminating\/DR0000_7363-When-The-Levee-Break-Alternative.mp3\"> When The Levee Break Alternative.mp3<\/a> 85 BPM Oldie Ballad<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/idea.membrane.com\/songwriter\/daniel-brouse\/Culminating\/DR0000_7364-When-The-Levee-Breaks-Reprise.mp3\"> When The Levee Breaks Reprise.mp3<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/camelot.kingarthur.com\/Daniel-Brouse\/Earthling-Country\/000708_3381-When-The-Levee-Breaks-Alternative.mp3\">When The Levee Breaks Alternative #2.mp3<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/camelot.kingarthur.com\/Daniel-Brouse\/Earthling-Country\/music-videos\/photographs-and-bonus-tracks\/000708_3379-When-The-Levee-Breaks.mp3\">When The Levee Breaks.mp3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Daniel &#8212; Vocals, Guitar<\/p>\n<p>From the album <a href=\"http:\/\/camelot.kingarthur.com\/Daniel-Brouse\/Earthling-Country\/\"><strong><em>Earthling Country<\/em><\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby <a href=\"http:\/\/idea.membrane.com\">Daniel Brouse<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written and first recorded by husband and wife Kansas Joe McCoy and Memphis Minnie in 1929 Made famous by Led Zeppelin E7* E E7** E7* 18x C D E7* E E7** E If it keeps on raining, levee&#8217;s goin&#8217; to break, 2x E7* E E7** E When the levee breaks I&#8217;ll have no place to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1478,9,14],"tags":[70,2159,1899,198,2742,304,312,2745,2610,487,2746,541,556,613,998,781,782,897],"class_list":["post-9113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chords","category-coversongs","category-daniel","category-lyrics","tag-alternative","tag-alternative-country","tag-americana","tag-daniel-brouse","tag-earthling-country","tag-folk-rock","tag-free","tag-joe-mccoy","tag-led-zeppelin","tag-live","tag-memphis-minnie","tag-mp3-downloads","tag-music","tag-original","tag-psychedelic","tag-songs","tag-songwriter","tag-vocals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9113"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30832,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9113\/revisions\/30832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}