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When The Levee Breaks Acoustic chords by Led Zeppelin

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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.

E7* = Chord diagramG+G string 1st fret + Chord diagramA augmentedA string 2nd fret (2 finger Chord diagramE7E7 chord)
E7** = Chord diagramE MajorE chord + Chord diagramBB string 3rd fret (4 finger Chord diagramE7E7 chord)
Chord diagramE MajorE chord

Repeatedly strum E7*/E/E7**/E7*  Play around with different combinations for the
best effect, deemphasizing the high Chord diagramE MajorE string and emphasizing the low Chord diagramE MajorE string

Capo I

E7*/E/E7**/E7*  18x

Chord diagramC majorC Chord diagramD MajorD

E7*/E 4x

Chord diagramC majorC Chord diagramD MajorD

E7*/E 4x
      E7*      Chord diagramE MajorE        E7**             Chord diagramE MajorE
If it keeps on raining, levee's goin' to break, 2x
         E7*   Chord diagramE MajorE           E7**             Chord diagramE MajorE
When the levee breaks I'll have no place to stay.

E7*/E/E7**/E7*  2x

E7*      Chord diagramE MajorE                  E7**     Chord diagramE MajorE
Mean old levee taught me to weep and moan, 2x
E7*         Chord diagramE MajorE               E7**                   Chord diagramE MajorE
Got what it takes to make a mountain man leave his home,
E7* Chord diagramE MajorE     E7* Chord diagramE MajorE     E7* Chord diagramE MajorE
Oh, well, oh, well, oh, well.

Chord diagramC majorC Chord diagramD MajorD

E7*/E 4x

Chord diagramC majorC Chord diagramD MajorD

E7*/E 4x


E7*/E  E7*/B  E7* Chord diagramA augmentedA Chord diagramD MajorD Chord diagramE MajorE

E7*                    Chord diagramE MajorE
Don't it make you feel bad
            Chord diagramBB
When you're trying to find your way home,
    Chord diagramA augmentedA                Chord diagramD MajorD      Chord diagramE MajorE
You don't know which way to go?
          E7*        Chord diagramE MajorE
If you're goin' down South
     Chord diagramBB
They got no work to do,
       Chord diagramA augmentedA           Chord diagramD MajorD       Chord diagramE MajorE
If you don't know about Chicago.

E7*/E  E7*/B  E7* Chord diagramA augmentedA Chord diagramD MajorD Chord diagramE MajorE 2x

E7*/E/E7**/E7*  14x

Chord diagramC majorC Chord diagramD MajorD

E7*/E 4x

Chord diagramC majorC Chord diagramD MajorD

E7*/E 4x

E7*          Chord diagramE MajorE         E7**                    Chord diagramE MajorE
Cryin' won't help you, praying won't do you no good,
     E7*          Chord diagramE MajorE         E7**                    Chord diagramE MajorE
Now, cryin' won't help you, praying won't do you no good,
         E7*   Chord diagramE MajorE       E7**             Chord diagramE MajorE
When the levee breaks, mama, you got to move.

E7*/E/E7**/E7* 2x

E7*      Chord diagramE MajorE     E7**                 Chord diagramE MajorE
All last night sat on the levee and moaned, 2x
          E7*     Chord diagramE MajorE    E7**         Chord diagramE MajorE
Thinking about me baby and my happy home.

Chord diagramC majorC Chord diagramD MajorD

E7*/E 4x

Chord diagramC majorC Chord diagramD MajorD

E7*/E 4x
E7*/E  E7*/B  E7* Chord diagramA augmentedA Chord diagramD MajorD Chord diagramE MajorE 2x

E7*/E  E7*/B  E7* Chord diagramA augmentedA  Chord diagramD MajorD  Chord diagramE MajorE 2x
Ah  ha ah  ha ah  ha ha ha

E7*/E  E7*/B  E7* Chord diagramA augmentedA Chord diagramD MajorD Chord diagramE MajorE

E7*/E/E7**/E7* 2x

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

E7*   Chord diagramE MajorE       E7**  E7*  Chord diagramE MajorE
Going down... going down now... going down....


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