Hurricane

30 miles on the Gulf Stream
 I hear the south wind moan
 The bridges getting lower
 The 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 Pontchartrain
 Underneath the Louisiana moon
 I don't mind the strain
 Of a hurricane
 They come around every June
 The high black water
 A devil's 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
 Man came down from Chicago
 He 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'll 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
 A devil's 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
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 30 miles on the Gulf Stream
 I hear the south wind moan
 The bridges getting lower
 The 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
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 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
 A devil's 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
 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
 A devil's 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
 Nobody taught her
 It takes a lot of water
 To wash away New Orleans, yeah