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When The Levee Breaks chords (for acoustic guitar; an oxymoron?)
Led Zeppelin 1970 (Kansas Joe McCoy & Memphis Minnie 1929)

Arguably, one of the finest recordings ever mixing the blues with heavy metal rock. 
About the great Mississippi flood of 1927.Very hard to accurately duplicate because of the 
heavy amount of studio recording, echo harmonica & special effects.

* =  string 1st fret +  string 2nd fret (2 finger  chord)
** =  chord +  string 3rd fret (4 finger  chord)
 chord

Repeatedly strum *//**/* Play around with different combinations for the best 
effect, deemphasizing the high E string and emphasizing the low  string

Capo I

*  ** *  18x

 

*/ 4x

 

*/ 4x

           
If it keeps on

         
 raining, leve

             
e's goin' to b

reak, 2x
           
When the levee

            
 breaks I'll h

           
ave no place t

  
o stay.

*  ** *  2x

          
Mean old levee

              
 taught me to 

     
weep and moan,

 2x
          
Got what it ta

              
kes to make a 

          
mountain man l

         
eave his home,
       
Oh, well, oh, 

      
well, oh, well

.

 

*/ 4x

 

*/ 4x

*   *   *   

           
Don't it make 

         
you feel bad
            
When you're tr

ying to find y

our way home,
             
You don't know

             
 which way to 


go?
           
If you're goin

       
' down South
     
They got no wo

rk to do,
             
If you don't k

            
now about Chic

ago.

*   *   *   
 2x

*  ** *  14x

 

*/ 4x

 

*/ 4x

          
Cryin' won't h

          
elp you, prayi

              
ng won't do yo

     
u no good,
           
Now, cryin' wo

             
n't help you, 

          
praying won't 

          
do you no good

,
           
When the levee

         
 breaks, mama,

            
 you got to mo

ve.

*  ** * 2x

          
All last night

          
 sat on the le

        
vee and moaned

, 2x
           
Thinking about

         
 me baby and m

        
y happy home.

 

*/ 4x

 

*/ 4x

*   *   *   
 2x

*   *   *     
 
Ah  ha ah  ha 

ah  ha ha ha

*   *   *   

*  ** * 2x

Going, going to Chicago... Going to Chicago... sorry but I can't take you...

          
Going down... 

    
going down now

... going down

....

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