What has happened down here is the winds have changed
Clouds roll in from the north and it start 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 alright
The river have busted through, clear down to Plaque mines
Six feet of water in the streets of Evangeline

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 notepad in his hand
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 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
They're tryin' to wash us away
They're tryin' to wash us away


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Louisiana 1927 Lyrics as written by Randy Newman

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    I think it could be a metaphorical gone with the wind kind of thing. Who knows.

    It's just a great song, beautiful music. I remember my Grandmother took me to see Gone With the Wind when I was a kid and I thought it was so boring. But a friend was over here the other day and he say a picture in my apartment labeled Sherman's Headquarters and his church owns it. We started talking about how Savannah surrendered and that was where he wrote the letter to Lincoln, and where the 40 acres and a mule thing was conceived (much earlier than I had thought).

    It's just history here. It's not all history we should be proud of but it's just something nobody really gets unless they've lived here.

    bkabbotton May 16, 2014   Link

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