For inspiration, here's Randy Newman's song "Louisiana 1927" -

http://www.lyricsdepot.com/randy_newman/louisiana-1927.html

Lyrics:
What has happened down here is the wind have changed,
Clouds roll in from the north and it started to rain.
Rained real hard and rained for a real long time.
Six feet of water in the streets of Evangeline

The river rose all day, the river rose all night.
Some people got lost in the flood,
Some people got away all right.
The river have busted through clear down to Plaquemines
Six feet of water in the streets of Evangeline.

CHORUS
Louisiana, Louisiana,
They're tyrin' to wash us away
They're tryin' to wash us away
Louisiana, Louisiana
They're tryin' to wash us away
They're tryin' to wash us away

President Coolidge came down in a railroad train
With a little fat man with a note-pad in his hand.
The President say, "Little fat man isn't it a shame what the river has
done
To this poor cracker's land."

CHORUS