Don Cornell's song -- "Have faith love, and charity, that's the way to live successfully -- How do I know? The Bible tells me so" -- was written, I believe, by Dale Evans (Roy Rogers' wife). Not absolutely sure on this.

"The levee was dry" -- a reference to a theme in many blues songs, having to do with luck being so bad you can't even commit suicide. Viz. Hank Williams:

I went to the river, to watch the fish swim by I got the river, so lonesome I wanted to die But when I jumped in the river, the doggone river was dry