Build A Levee letra

When I was just a little girl
My mamma said to me
"Beware of the devil my chld
in the dark rocky places he'll keep
Beware of the devil my child
Beware of his charming ways
You'll fall under an evil spell
just looking at his beautiful face
You gotta build yourself a levee deep inside"

"Don't go walking by the riverside
alone in the pale moonlight
He'll come upon you girl
With no earthy body in sight
Come up upon you girl
and he'll whisper something sweet
then take you
where the waters rise so high and run so deep"

"You gotta build yourself a levee deep inside
Gotta build yourself a levee deep inside
Build yourself a levee girl
When the waters run high"

Now when I was just a little girl
My mamma said to me
"Beware of the devil my child
but if by chance you should meet
Beware of his cold dark eyes
Full of bold and unholy deceit
He'll tempt you with a whirling pool of lies
and promises he'll deny
or that he'll never keep"

"You gotta build yourself a levee deep inside
Build yourself a levee deep inside
You gotta build yourself a levee deep inside
Build yourself a levee girl
when the waters run high"

Natalie Merchant - Letras

• (From) Both Sides Now
• Adventures of Isabel
• After The Gold Rush
• All I Want
• Autumn Lullaby
• Baby I Love You
• Because the Night
• Beloved Wife
• Black Sheep
• Bleezer's Ice-Cream
• Break Your Heart
• Build A Levee
• Bury Me Under The Weeping Willow
• But Not For Me
• Calico Pie
• Carnival
• Children Go Where I Send Thee
• Come Take A Trip In My Airship
• Cowboy Romance
• Crazy man Michael
• Crying, My Little One
• Diver boy
• Down on Penny's farm
• Dust Bowl
• Effigy
• Equestrienne
• Frozen Charlotte
• Giving Up Everything
• Go Down, Moses
• Golden Boy
• Griselda
• Gulf Of Araby
• House Carpenter
• How You've Grown
• I Hope That I Don't Fall In Love With You
• I May Know The Word
• I Saw a Ship A-sailing
• I'm Not Gonna Beg
• If No One Ever Marries Me
• In the Ghetto
• Indian Names
• It Makes A Change
• It's A-coming
• Jealousy
• Just Can't Last
• Kind & Generous
• King of May
• Ladybird
• Last goodbye
• Life Is Sweet
• Lowlands Of Holland
• Lulu
• Maggie And Milly And Molly And May
• Maggie Said
• Misguided Angel
• Motherland
• My Skin
• Noah's dove
• Not In This Life
• Nursery Rhyme Of Innocence And Experience
• Ode To Billy Joe
• One Fine Day
• Ophelia
• Ophelia
• Owensboro
• Peace train
• Poor Wayfaring Stranger
• Put The Law On You
• River
• Saint Judas
• Sally Ann
• San Andreas Fault
• Santa Baby
• Seven Deadly Sins
• Seven Years
• Soldier, Soldier
• Son Of A Preacher Man
• Space Oddity
• Spring And Fall: To a Young Child
• Sweet And a Lullaby
• Sympathy For The Devil
• Take A Look
• Tell Yourself
• Texas
• The Ballad of Henry Darger
• The Blind Men And The Elephant
• The Dancing Bear
• The End
• The Gulf of Araby
• The Janitor's Boy
• The King Of China's Daughter
• The Land Of Nod
• The Letter
• The Living
• The Lowlands Of Holland
• The Man In The Wilderness
• The Missionary's Daughter
• The Peppery Man
• The Sleepy Giant
• The Walloping Window Blind
• The Worst Thing
• Thick As Thieves
• This House Is On Fire
• To Sir With Love (feat. Michael Stipe)
• Topsyturvey-world
• Tower of Babel
• Vain And Careless
• Verdi Cries
• Weeping Pilgrim
• When They Ring The Golden Bells
• Where I Go
• Which Side Are You On?
• Wonder