Thread #356   Message #551909
Posted By: Joe Offer
16-Sep-01 - 08:09 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Hurricane (Leon Everett)
Subject: Lyr Add: LOUISIANA 1927 (Randy Newman)

LOUISIANA 1927
Written by Randy Newman
As sung by Randy Newman on "Good Old Boys" (1974)

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

River rose all day; the river rose all night.
Some people got lost in the flood; some people got away alright.
River has busted through clear down to Plaquemines.
Six feet o' water in the streets of Evangeline.

Louisiana, Louisiana,
They're tryin' 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 notepad 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?"

Louisiana, Louisiana,
They're tryin' 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.
They're tryin' to wash us away.
They're tryin' to wash us away.