藝人：Memphis Minnie & Kansas Joe McCoy
單曲：When The Levee Breaks
年份：1929

Memphis Minnie & Kansas Joe McCoy 是很久很久以前的人物，她們是一對夫妻，Memphis Minnie 是太太，Kansas Joe McCoy 是先生。兩人中以 Memphis Minnie 名氣較大，是歌手也是吉他手。那個年代的女吉他手耶，聽起來真新鮮！

Memphis Minnie 網頁：
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:kiftxq95ld0e
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memphis_Minnie
http://www.cr.nps.gov/delta/blues/people/memphis_minnie.htm

據查資料，這首「When The Levee Breaks」應該是 Memphis Minnie 唱的，在網路上抓到此檔時它也只寫 Memphis Minnie，但聽起來真的是女生的聲音嗎？疑惑中！

這首歌是在談1927年美國密西西比州的大洪水，「Levee」是「河堤」的意思，再來自己看歌詞就曉得囉，內容算是淺顯易懂。

Memphis Minnie & Kansas Joe McCoy -
When The Levee Breaks (1929)
http://youtu.be/y2m0ROgy5WY
http://0.mms.blog.xuite.net/0/d/5/9/15510105/blog_425443/dv/7610213/7610213.wma

If it keeps on rainin', levee's goin' to break
If it keeps on rainin', levee's goin' to break
And the water gonna come in, have no place to stay

Well all last night I sat on the levee and moan
Well all last night I sat on the levee and moan
Thinkin' 'bout my baby and my happy home

If it keeps on rainin', levee's goin' to break
If it keeps on rainin', levee's goin' to break
And all these people have no place to stay

Now look here mama what am I to do
Now look here mama what am I to do
I ain't got nobody to tell my troubles to

I works on the levee mama both night and day
I works on the levee mama both night and day
I ain't got nobody, keep the water away

Oh cryin' won't help you, prayin' won't do no good
Oh cryin' won't help you, prayin' won't do no good
When the levee breaks, mama, you got to lose

I works on the levee, mama both night and day
I works on the levee, mama both night and day
I works so hard, to keep the water away

I had a woman, she wouldn't do for me
I had a woman, she wouldn't do for me
I'm goin' back to my used to be

I's a mean old levee, cause me to weep and moan
I's a mean old levee, cause me to weep and moan
Gonna leave my baby, and my happy home

藝人：Led Zeppelin
專輯：Led Zeppelin IV
年份：1971
曲名：When The Levee Breaks

據說 Jimmy Page 或 Robert Plant 真的收藏有 Memphis Minnie & Kansas Joe McCoy 的原版「When The Levee Breaks」唱片，後來他們把歌詞旋律都改一改，將之翻唱為純屬齊柏林風貌的歌曲。其實齊柏林翻唱過不少歌，但都翻的面目全非煥然一新，可說是翻唱界一等一的高手！

齊柏林的「When The Levee Breaks」又是鼓的教科書，媽啊，那鼓聲真是好聽極了，前奏一出來就令人興奮！據說他們把整套鼓搬到一棟大建築物的樓梯間，是外國那種古老建築的樓梯門廳喔，挑高三層的寬闊樓梯間，鼓手 John Bonham 就直接在那裡打鼓，收錄現場自然攝人的迴音，讚啊！

Led Zeppelin - When The Levee Breaks (1971)
http://youtu.be/WbrjRKB586s
http://0.mms.blog.xuite.net/0/d/5/9/15510105/blog_425443/dv/7610274/7610274.wma

If it keeps on rainin', levee's goin' to break,
If it keeps on rainin', levee's goin' to break,
When The Levee Breaks I'll have no place to stay.

Mean old levee taught me to weep and moan,
Mean old levee taught me to weep and moan,
Got what it takes to make a mountain man leave his home,
Oh, well, oh, well, oh, well.

Don't it make you feel bad
When you're tryin' to find your way home,
You don't know which way to go?
If you're goin' down South
They go no work to do,
If you don't know about Chicago.

Cryin' won't help you, prayin' won't do you no good,
Now, cryin' won't help you, prayin' won't do you no good,
When the levee breaks, mama, you got to move.

All last night sat on the levee and moaned,
All last night sat on the levee and moaned,
Thinkin' about me baby and my happy home.
Going, going to Chicago... Going to Chicago... Sorry but I can't take you...
Going down... going down now... going down....

藝人：U2
專輯：The Joshua Tree
年份：1987
曲名：Bullet The Blue Sky

據說 U2 說他們這首 Bullet The Blue Sky 是以 Led Zeppelin 的 When The Levee Breaks 為本而發展完成，算是向 Led Zeppelin 致敬 (但不知是哪時候說的)。回頭聽聽確實有像，但也有做出自己的味道，跟 Led Zeppelin 將之從老藍調翻過來一樣，都有做出自己的新風味，而且好聽。

U2 - Bullet The Blue Sky (1987)
http://youtu.be/fdmNC8ylrXI

In the howling wind comes a stinging rain
See it driving nails
Into the souls on the tree of pain
From the firefly, a red orange glow
See the face of fear
Running scared in the valley below

Bullet the blue sky
Bullet the blue sky
Bullet the blue
Bullet the blue

In the locust wind comes a rattle and hum
Jacob wrestled the angel
And the angel was overcome
You plant a demon seed
You raise a flower of fire
See them burning crosses
See the flames higher and higher

Bullet the blue sky
Bullet the blue sky
Bullet the blue
Bullet the blue

This guy comes up to me
His face red like a rose on a thorn bush
Like all the colors of a royal flush
And he's peeling off those dollar bills
Slapping them down
One hundred, two hundred
And I can see those fighter planes
And I can see those fighter planes
Across the mud huts where the children sleep
Through the alleys of a quiet city street
You take the staircase to the first floor
Turn the key and slowly unlock the door
As a man breathes into a saxophone
And through the walls you hear the city groan
Outside is America
Outside is America

Across the field you see the sky ripped open
See the rain through a gaping wound
Pounding on the women and children
Who run
Into the arms
Of America