Flatt And Scruggs - Down in the Flood lyrics

Crash on the levee mama water's gonna overflow

Swamp's gonna rise ain't no boat's a gonna row

Now you can train on down to Williams Point

You can bust your feet and you can rock this joint

But oh mama ain't you gonna miss your best friend now

You're gonna have to find yourself another best friend somehow

Now don't you try and move me you're just gonna lose

There's a crash on the levee and mama you've been refused

Well it's sugar for sugar and it's salt for salt

If you go down in the flood it's gonna be your falt

But oh mama...

[ dobro ]

Well that high tide's risin' mama don't you let me down

Pack up your suitcase mama don't you make a sound

Now it's king for king it's queen for queen

It's a gonna be the meanest flood that anybody's seen

But oh mama...

You're gonna have to find yourself another best friend somehow