Natalie Merchant Lyrics

Album: Motherland

Motherland Lyrics

When I was just a little girl my mamma said to me,

 "beware of the devil my child

 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 up 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 will never keep"

 

 "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"