Levee Town

Sunlight blinking through the cypress knees
 Lays shadow steps in front of Jacob and me
 As if we're guided by the heavens' eye
 On a ladder road down to the levee town
 Quick as lightning, news is frightening
 Kayla, my neighbor, where you running to?
 Yelling, "Thunder! The prophets have not blundered
 The great locks are opening soon."
 The river is high and the sandbags are sinking low
 Whoa, they're rocking the cradle
 But some day we'll rock-a-bye and roll
 Out the red carpet 'long the Atchafalaya
 And we'll snake up the river and rejoice in style
 Break out a bottle of fine gulping wine
 And raise Cain down in the levee town
 I heard old Moses was hired to go
 By the Corps of Engineers to run this show
 Out of the Basin, two by two
 Just ask Noah, he knows what to do
 The river is high and the sandbags are sinking low
 Whoa, they're rocking the cradle
 But some day we'll rock-a-bye and roll
 Out the red carpet 'long the Atchafalaya
 And we'll snake up the river and rejoice in style
 Break out a bottle of fine gulping wine
 And raise Cain down in the levee town
 In the eye of the storm, we will face our fears
 At the reckoning place, all channels wind up here
 Live oaks point the way with twisted trunks under mossy drapes
 So pull back the curtain, the Devil be damned
 Into the fog, we will make our stand
 But the word gets around, so don't be surprised
 At who shows up down in the levee town
 The river is high and the sandbags are sinking low
 Hey, they're rocking the cradle
 But some day rock-a-bye and roll
 Out the red carpet 'long the Atchafalaya
 And we'll snake up the river and rejoice in style
 Break out a bottle of fine gulping wine
 And raise Cain down in the levee town