As the Mississippi is cresting up-river of New Orleans, the Army Corps is planning on blowing up a 2 mile section of a levee protecting Cairo, Illinois in order to take pressure off the wider levee system. Charley Patton, founder of the delta blues, wrote this song about this very thing; except his flood was in 1927, a flood that spawned a whole bunch of songs (including “When the Levee Breaks” covered by Led Zeppelin).
