Gloria Gaynor said Thursday that she rewrote her 1978 disco anthem "I Will Survive" to "Texas Will Survive" because "I've got to do whatever I can do."
"I had already donated money but needed something beyond that," Gaynor, 67, who won a Grammy Award for her No. 1 hit, told Chris Cuomo on CNN.
Gaynor, who lives in New Jersey, posted the re-worked version on social media on Wednesday.
She said was especially moved by seeing news footage of seniors stranded in a flooded nursing home.
"It really tore at my heart, because they're helpless in many ways — and I just can't imagine being in that situation and hoping that someone would be there for me, to bring me out of that," Gaynor told Cuomo.
She took about five minutes to rework the lyrics, "because it was on my heart.
"Probably because I prayed about it and said, 'OK, Lord, what can I say that's going to touch these people?'
"The dynamic here is a little different," she added. "This is about us all being interconnected and interdependent.
"At the end of the day, we're all in it together."
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