Hurricane

Thirty miles in the Gulf Stream
I hear the south wind moan
Bridges getting lower
Shrimp boats coming home
The old man down in the quarter
Slowly turns his head
Takes a sip from his whiskey bottle and this is what he said

I was born in the rain on the Ponchartrain
Underneath the Louisiana moon
I don't mind the strain of a hurricane
They come around every June
The high black water
The devils daughter
She's hard she's cold and she's mean
But nobody taught her it takes a lot of water to wash away New Orleans

A man came down from Chicago
He's gonna set that levee right
He said it needs to be at least three feet higher it won't make it through the night
But the old man down in the quarter
He said don't you listen to that boy
The water be down by the morning and he'll be back to Illinois

I was born in the rain on the Pontchartrain underneath the Louisiana moon
I don't mind the strain of a hurricane they come around every June
The high black water
The devils daughter
She's hard she's cold and she's mean
But nobody taught her
It takes a lot of water to wash away New Orleans

Thirty miles in the Gulf Stream
I hear the south wind moan
Bridges getting lower
Shrimp boats coming home



Credits
Writer(s): Keith Stegall, Stewart Harris, Thom Schuyler
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