Steve Earle does lots of modulation on the D (mostly sus2 and sus4 from what I can tell)
This city won t wash away
This city won t ever drown
Blood in the water, and Hell to pay
Sky tear open and pain rain down
Doesn t matter let come what may
I ain t ever gonna leave this town
This city won t wash away
This city won t ever drown
Ain t the river or the wind to blame
As everybody around here knows
Nothing holding back Pontchartrain
cept a prayer and a promise s ghost
This town s digging our graves
In solid marble above the ground
Maybe our bones will wash away
But this city won t ever drown
This city won t ever die
Just as long as our heart beats strong
Like a second line steppin high
Raisin hell as we roll along
Gentille to Vieux Carre
Lower 9, Central City, Uptown
Singing jockamo fee nané
This city won t ever drown
Doesn t matter cause there ain t no way
I m ever gonna leave this town
This city won t wash away
This city won t ever drown.