Steemit Open Mic Week 87 - "This City" (Steve Earle cover)

I wrote about New Orleans earlier this week, so I thought now I would sing my favorite song about it. It's by Steve Earle.

Lyrics:

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 for 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.
This city won't wash away
This city won't ever drown.
This city won't wash away
This city won't ever drown.

Milestone: this is the first one of these that actually sounds pretty good to me. I threw some reverb into the effects mix and it helped a lot, of course this song is really suited for that. It's nice to feel like I'm making some progress. Next week I'm going to start doing something about those terminal consonants.

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