Build A Levee lyrics

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`
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