Top Five Songs About Overflowing Rivers
Not all of them in New Orleans.
1. The Clash, “London Calling”
2. Randy Newman, “Lousiana 1927”
3. Led Zeppelin, “When the Levee Breaks”
4. Johnny Cash, “Five Feet High and Rising”
5. Bob Dylan, “Down in the Flood”
Stay dry, Brooklyn.
posted 15 August 2012 in Tasty Bits and tagged rivers, top five. 2 comments
August 16th, 2012 at 1:22 am
“When the Levee Breaks” by Kansas Joe McCoy and Memphis Minnie, if you please. (Oh, all right: 🙂 )
August 18th, 2012 at 10:40 am
How about Talking Heads’ “Once in a Lifetime”? Does it not count ‘cuz Byrne mentions the bottom of the ocean?