This song appeared as CRY FOR NEW ORLEANS on Jude Johnstone's album "Quiet Girl" (2011) and was also released as a single titled CRY, CRY, CRY (FOR NEW ORLEANS). You can see/hear a video of this song sung by Gayneille Neville and Cyril Neville on YouTube.


CRY FOR NEW ORLEANS
Words and music by Jude Johnstone and David Lee "Goat" Carson

Brother, let me just say this
Before we go much further:
She didn't die a natural death.
New Orleans was murdered,
Cold-blooded, first-degree
Crime of the century—
Half a million souls hung out to dry;
And the very powers that be
Who bore responsibility,
Left the innocent be left to die.

Cry, cry, cry,
Cry, cry, cry for New Orleans.

Some who laid their badges down,
Let the looters take the town,
Will feel the heat for all eternity.
But a darker deed was done
In front of God and everyone
By those who were the last to come and see:
Waving flags to hide the blame
For the scandal and the shame,
Strangers from the land of liberty.

Cry, cry, cry,
Cry, cry, cry for New Orleans.

It could never be justified
The way that they were crucified,
And the truth, no, it could never be denied.

The spirits of the ones that lay
In the streets day after day
Say: "Don't you dare forget the way
We died."

Cry, cry, cry,
Cry, cry, cry for New Orleans,
For new Orleans.