The stories behind Sounding the Delta Line

• The Stomping Swamp Blues Groove of Sounding the Delta Line — Take B leans into resonator slide work, earthy percussive claps, and a hypnotic southern riverboat acoustic shuffle.
• Chasing Chassis Leakage on the Mississippi Levee — When floodwaters rise against hospital foundations, clinical engineers face real microamp leakage across humid bayou wards.

Lyrics

Fog heavy on the river

Ground leak is rising in the bayou wards

Sound the line

Engineer

Oh, muddy water rollin' past the levee wall

Hey, August moisture creepin' down the hall

The telemetry monitors started to groan

Straight microamps with a copperhead blown

the doctor shouted is the patient in shock i said

no captain the river's on the dock

I took my test

Leased down into the floor

To sound the electric dip once more

By the mark one

By the mark one

Five hundred microns By the mark two

Too close to the dam

Gotta find a channel where the waters run

Before this hospital is overrun

Roll,

roll river But leave our wives alone

The biomed pilot will guard his own

Sounding the ground and through the mud and the muck

Don't leave our voltage to chance or to luck

Way down south on the

Mississippi Bend A well -sealed conduit can

never bend

Down by the boiler deck, rusted and wet

A flooded junction box caught in the net

River mist pooling in the terminal school

Feeding bad voltage straight into the crew

I dried off the copper with a blowtorch flame

Sealed it with asphalt in the bio -mid name

The leak is dropped down to a clean zero

Flat, fast as the paddle of a riverboat ride

Mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm

Oh, oh, riverboat, by the water low

The battle is power,

the war is on

Signing the ground into the mud and the mud

We don't leave our voltage to chance or luck

Way down south on the

Mississippi Bend Well, sealed conduit can

never bend

Mark Twain Safe water

The telemetry is clear

As morning glass

Paddle on

Riverboat

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

you for watching!