Thirty miles off the Gulf Stream

I hear the south wind moan

The bridges gettin' lower

The shrimp boats comin' home

But the old man down in the Quarter

Slowly turns his head

Takes a sip from his whiskey bottle and

This is what he said

"I was born in the rain on the Pontchartrain

Underneath the Louisiana moon

I don't mind the strain of a hurricane

It comes around every June

The high black water, the devil's daughter

She's hard and she's cold and she's mean

But nobody taught her it takes a lot of water

To wash away New Orleans"

A man came down from Chicago

He's gonna set that levee right

He said, "It needs to be at least three feet higher

Or it won't make it through the night"

But the old man down in the Quarter

Said, "Don't you listen to that boy

The water'll be down by the mornin'

And he'll be back to Illinois"

And I was born in the rain on the Pontchartrain

Underneath the Louisiana moon

I don't mind the strain of a hurricane

It comes around every June

The high black water, the devil's daughter

She's hard and she's cold and she's mean

But nobody taught her it takes a lot of water

To wash away New Orleans

Thirty miles off the Gulf Stream

I hear the south wind moan

The bridges gettin' lower

The shrimp boats comin' home

But the old man down in the Quarter

Slowly turns his head

Takes a sip from his whiskey bottle and

This is what he said

I was born in the rain on the Pontchartrain

Underneath the Louisiana moon

I don't mind the strain of a hurricane

It comes around every June

The high black water, the devil's daughter

She's hard and she's cold and she's mean

But nobody taught her it takes a lot of water

To wash away New Orleans

And I was born in the rain on the Pontchartrain

Underneath the Louisiana moon

I don't mind the strain of a hurricane

It comes around every June

The high black water, the devil's daughter

She's hard and she's cold and she's mean

But nobody taught her it takes a lot of water

To wash away New Orleans

But nobody taught her it takes a lot of water

To wash away New Orleans