Standard (EADGBE)
This city won't wash away
This city won't ever drown
Blood in the water, and Hell to pay
Sky tear open and pain rain down
Doesn't matter let come what may
I ain't ever gonna leave this town
This city won't wash away
This city won't ever drown
Ain't the river or the wind to blame
As everybody around here knows
Nothing holding back Pontchartrain
'cept a prayer and a promise's ghost
This town's digging our graves
In solid marble above the ground
Maybe our bones will wash away
But this city won't ever drown
This city won't ever die
Just as long as our heart beats strong
Like a second line steppin' high
Raisin' hell as we roll along
Gentille to Vieux Carre
Lower 9, Central City, Uptown
Singing jockamo fee nané
This city won't ever drown
Doesn't matter 'cause there ain't no way
I'm ever gonna leave this town
This city won't wash away
This city won't ever drown.