Levee town chords by Sonny Landreth

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Intro 1

Verse 1
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Sunlight blinking
through the cypress knees
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Lays shadow steps in front of Jacob and me
As if we're guided by the heavens' eye
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On a ladder road down to

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Interlude 1

the levee town

Verse 2
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Quick as lightning,
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news is frightening
Kayla, my neighbor,
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where you running to?
Yelling, "Thunder! The prophets
have not blundered
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The great locks are opening soon."

Verse 3
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The river is high and the sandbags
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are sinking low
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Whoa, they're rocking the cradle
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But some day we'll rock- a- bye and roll
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Out the red carpet 'long the Atchafalaya
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And we'll snake up the river
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and rejoice in style
Break out a bottle of fine gulping wine
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And raise Cain down in
the levee town
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Verse 4
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I heard old Moses was hired to go
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By the Corps of Engineers to run this show
Out of the Basin, two by two
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Just ask Noah, he knows what to do

Verse 5
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The river is high and the sandbags
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are sinking low
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Whoa, they're rocking the cradle
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But some day we'll rock- a- bye and roll
Out the red carpet 'long the Atchafalaya
Dm 
And we'll snake up the river
G 
and rejoice in style
Break out a bottle of fine gulping wine
Dm 
G 
And raise Cain down in the levee town

Interlude 2

In the

Verse 6

eye of the storm,

we will face our fears

At the reckoning place,

all channels wind up here

Verse 7
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Live oaks point the way with twisted
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trunks under mossy drapes
So pull back the curtain,
the Devil be damned
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Into the fog, we will make our stand
But the word gets around,
so don't be surprised
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At who shows up down
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in the levee town

Verse 8
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The river is high and the
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sandbags are sinking low
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Hey, they're rocking the cradle
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But some day rock- a- bye and roll
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Out the red carpet 'long the
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Atchafalaya
Dm 
And we'll snake up the river
G 
and rejoice in style
Break out a bottle of fine gulping wine
Dm 
G 
And raise Cain down in the levee town

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