Текст песни Л.З. - Когда рухнет плотина

If it keeps on rainin', levee's goin' to break, [x2]
When the levee breaks I'll have no place to stay.

Mean old levee taught me to weep and moan, [x2]
Got what it takes to make a mountain man leave his home,
Oh, well, oh, well, oh, well.

Don't it make you feel bad
When you're tryin' to find your way home,
You don't know which way to go?
If you're goin' down South
They go no work to do,
If you don't know about Chicago.

Cryin' won't help you, prayin' won't do you no good,
Now, cryin' won't help you, prayin' won't do you no good,
When the levee breaks, mama, you got to move.

All last night sat on the levee and moaned, [x2]
Thinkin' about me baby and my happy home.
Going, going to Chicago... Going to Chicago... Sorry but I can't take you...
Going down... going down now... going down....

Если лить не перестанет - не сегодня-завтра плотина прорвется. [х2]
Если плотина прорвется - некуда мне будет деться...

Старуха-плотина научила меня слезам [х2].
Заставила сына гор уйти из дома...
О да, о да, о да.

Не правда ли, - до чего ж это печально,
Если ты потерял свой дом
И не знаешь, куда податься?
На Юг? -
На Юге и делать-то нечего,
Если ты у тебя нет знакомых в Чикаго...

Ни слезами, ни молитвами здесь не поможешь.
Теперь уже ничем не поможешь - ни слезами, ни молитвами...
Нет, сестренка - если плотина прорвется, придется убираться отсюда.

Всю ночь я сидел у плотины и вздыхал [х2],
Думая о своей семье, о том, что меня ждет...
В Чикаго... В Чикаго... Прости, но я не могу забрать тебя с собой...
Иду, иду, иду...

*Переработка классического блюза Мемфис Минни и Канзаса Джо МакКоя, посвященного Великому наводнению на Миссисипи в 1927 г.

If it keeps on rainin ', levee's goin' to break, [x2]
When the levee breaks I'll have no place to stay.

Mean old levee taught me to weep and moan, [x2]
Got what it takes to make a mountain man leave his home,
Oh, well, oh, well, oh, well.

Do not it make you feel bad
When you're tryin 'to find your way home,
You do not know which way to go?
If you're goin 'down South
They go no work to do,
If you do not know about Chicago.

Cryin 'will not help you, prayin' will not do you no good,
Now, cryin 'will not help you, prayin' will not do you no good,
When the levee breaks, mama, you got to move.

All last night sat on the levee and moaned, [x2]
Thinkin 'about me baby and my happy home.
Going, going to Chicago ... Going to Chicago ... Sorry but I can not take you ...
Going down ... going down now ... going down ....

If the casting is no longer - if not today, tomorrow, the dam will break . [ x2 ]
If the dam will break - I will have nowhere to escape ...

The old woman - dam taught me to tears [ x2 ] .
Son made ​​the mountains to get away from home ...
Oh yeah , oh yeah , oh yeah .

Is not it - to what 's this sad
If you lost your home
And you do not know where to go ?
South? -
In the South and do something nothing
If you are you do not have friends in Chicago ...

Neither tears nor prayers will not help here .
Now it can not be helped - no tears , no prayers ...
No, my sister - if the dam will break , will have to get out of here.

All night I was sitting at the dam and sighed [ x2 ]
Thinking about his family , that is waiting for me ...
In Chicago ... in Chicago ... I'm sorry, but I can not take you with me ...
Go , go , go ...

* Processing of classic blues Memphis Minnie and Kansas Joe McCoy , dedicated to the great flood on the Mississippi in 1927