When the Levee Breaks is a blues song written and first recorded by husband and wife Kansas Joe McCoy and Memphis Minnie in 1929. The song was written in response to the devastation caused by the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927. You can hear it here.
British rock group Led Zeppelin recorded their own version of the song in 1971.
You can read more on the flood and see some photographs of what happened here.
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