Higher Ground Letra

take us Lord to higher ground i fear for our lives i fear we will drown started rainin' 'bout ten o'clock and it don't look like it's ever gonna stop take us aboard your heavenly ark my motor's flooded so the car won't start we tried our luck on the casino boat should've known that flamingo was never gonna float take a sword lord and deliver us divide the waters before the roads become rivers of blood we've had enough of all the killing and the flood nothing much that we can do but roll up our pants and wade through no angel gonna rescue you and i take us lord to higher ground get us off this little dirt mound new orleans is sunk but she we went down singing and went down drunk was nothing much that we could do but roll up our pants and wade through no angel came to rescue you and i