baton rouge to naches. naches to vicksburg. vicksburg to memphis. memphis to cairo.build a dike a thousand miles long. men and mules, mules and mud. mules and mud a thousand miles up the mississippi. a century before we bought the great western river, the spanish and the french built dikes to keep the mississippi out of new orleans at flood stage. we continue to levee the entire length of the delta. the valley built up for centuries by the old river spilling her floods across the bottom of the continent. a mud delta of 40,000 square miles. men and mules, mules and mud. new orleans to baton rouge, naches to vicksburg, memphis to cairo a thousand miles up the river. and the planters brought their planks and their plows and their cotton over the river. down through the boom trace. down through cumberland gap over from georgia and south carolina. over from the tiedtidewater. over from the old cotton land west of the big river. west of the steam boat highway. down the highway to the sea. ♪ corn and oats down the missouri, tobacco and whisky down the ohio. down from pittsb

new orleans to baton rouge to naches to vicksburg to memphis to cairo. 1,000 miles down the levee.ing. memphis. river rising. cairo. river rising.,/ñs61&fbajtj to g. 1,000 miles of levee to hold. coast guard patrols needed at paducah. post guard patrols needed at paducah. 200 boats. 200 boats wanted to take them. levee patrol. 2,000 men wanted at cairo. 100,000 men to fight the river. to fight a ballot on a 2,000-mile front. the army and navy, coast guard and marine corps, ccc and wpa, red cross and the health service fought night and day to hold the old river off the valley. food and water needed at louisville. 500 dead, 5,000 ill. food and water needed at cincinnati. food and medicine needed at laurenville. 35,000 homeless in evansville. food and medicine needed in aurora. food and medicine and shelter and clothing. 750,000 down in the valley. last time we held the levy but the mississippi claimed the valley. she backed into tennessee, arkansas, illinois and missouri. she spread her arms over thousands of acres of land and left farms ruined, houses torn loose. 1903, 1907, 1913, 1

new orleans to baton rouge, naches to vicksburg, memphis to cairo a thousand miles up the river.y brought their blacks and their plows and their cotton over to the river. down through the boom train. down through cumberland gap over from georgia and south carolina. over from the tide water. over from the old cotton land west of the big river. west of the steam boat highway. down the highway to the sea. ♪ corn and oats down the missouri, tobacco and whisky down the ohio. down from pittsburgh, down from st. louis. hemp and potatoes, pork and flour. we send our commerce to the sea. ♪ we made cotton king. we rolled a million bales down the river from liverpool and leads, 1860 we rolled four million bales down the river. rolled them off alabama, rolled them off mississippi. rolled them off louisiana. ♪ we fought a war. we fought a war and kept the west bank of the river free of slavery forever. but we left the old south impoverished and stricken. doubly stricken because besides the tragedy of war already the frenzied cotton cultivation of a quarter century had taken toll of the land.

(cheers and applause) thank you so nachings, thank you so much, everybody. folks, please sit down. nation, yeah, as you know, by now if you were watching this-- if you were watching this, folks, if you were watching this on a television, and i hope you are, by now president obama has gone on the air tonight to outline his plan to degrade and destroy-- destroy isis. reports are with only 15 minutes long it would make sense. you don't need a whole lot of time to say my fellow americans-- (laughter) then i assume he fills out the hour by doing weather and sports. now i tape my show at 7:00, folks, so i have no idea what he said tonight. all i know is that i completely agree with what andrea tantaros said at 5:00, four hours before the president's speech. >> i'm very deeply troubled by what he will say. >> stephen: i couldn't have agreed more. (laughter) because i also have not seen it, and i am furious about what i any it will be. (laughter) we'll have full coverage of the speech tomorrow, whether or not i ever watch it. (laughter) #golf -- >> there is another failure of international

new orleans to baton rouge to naches to vicksburg to memphis to cairo. 1,000 miles down the levee.feet at baton rouge. river rising. memphis. river rising. cairo. river rising. 1,000 miles to go. 1,000 miles of levee to hold. coast guard patrols needed at paducah. coast guard patrols needed at paducah. 200 boats wanted at hickman. 200 boats wanted at hickman. levee patrol. levee patrol. 2,000 men wanted at cairo. 2,000 men wanted at cairo. 100,000 men to fight the river. to fight a battle on a 2,000-mile front. the army and navy, the coast guard and the marine corps, ccc and wpa, red cross and the health service fought night and day to hold the old river off the valley. ♪ food and water needed at louisville. 500 dead, 5,000 ill. food and water needed at cincinnati. food and medicine needed at laurenville. 35,000 homeless in evansville. food and medicine needed in aurora. food and medicine and shelter and clothing. 750,000 down in the valley. last time we held the levy but the mississippi claimed the valley. she backed into tennessee, and arkansas and illinois and missouri. she spre