Folk Songs About Floods

Floods, flooding, levees overflowing, dikes breached, etc.

Del Rey (via Memphis Minnie) - When the Levee Breaks
Muddy Water - Seldom Scene "Act Three", Rebel, and "Scene 20", Sugar Hill 
Wading Deep Water 
River of Death – Bill Monroe
Stormy Waters – Jimmy Martin
Drifting With The Tide – Don Reno
Roll Muddy River (written by Betty Perry) – Osborne Bros.
The Flood on Stoney Creek – Mickey Harris
The Lonesome River – Stanley Bros.
Buffalo Creek Flood – James Reams (based on a 2/26/72 disaster in 
Logan County, West Virginia. 125 people died) 
Nelson County Flood – Fall Line Bluegrass Band

[intentional flooding to create reservoirs]
Slaid Cleaves: Below (Wishbones)
Mark Erelli: The Farewell Ball
James Keelaghan: River Run
Andrew McKnight: Atlantis (Beyond Borders); 
Grant Rogers: Cannonsville Dam (Songmaker of the  Catskills)

Additional song suggestions? Email Richard Gillmann