This city won't wash away
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This city won't ever drown
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Blood in the water and hell to pay
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Sky tear open and pain rain down
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Doesn't matter 'cause come what may
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I ain't ever gonna leave this town
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This city won't wash away
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This city won't ever drown
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Ain't the river or the wind to blame
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Everybody around here knows
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Nothin' holdin' back Ponchartrain
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Except for a prayer and a promise's ghost
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We just carry on diggin' our graves
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In solid marble above the ground
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Maybe our bones'll wash away
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But this city won't ever drown
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This city won't ever die
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Just as long as her heart beats strong
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Like a second line steppin' high
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Raisin' hell as we roll along
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Gentilly to the Vieux Carre
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Lower Nine, Central City, Uptown
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Singin' Jacamo fee-nah-nay
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This city won't ever drown
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Doesn't matter cause there ain't no way
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I'm ever gonna leave this town
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This city won't wash away
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This city won't ever drown
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This City
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Steve Earle |