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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 |
