Louisiana: 'They're trying to wash us away'

The Gulf Coast tragedy has prompted a lot of song lyrics, many referring to the levee, to be posted in the last few days. Music does provide some solace when the world seems to be falling apart.

This song, "Louisiana 1927," is about a flood, not a hurricane, but it seems to fit. Randy Newman wrote it; Marcia Ball sings it at her shows. Randy Newman lived in New Orleans as a child and Marcia Ball is a native of Vinton, La.

LOUISIANA 1927

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 alright
The river have busted through cleard down
to Plaquemines
Six feet of water in the streets of Evangeline


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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 note-pad in his hand
The President say, "Little fat man isn't it
a shame what the river has
done
To this poor crackers land."

CHORUS