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Louisiana
1927
Randy Newman
Capo 3
Verse1:
G D/F# Em Em7
What has happened down here is the wind has
changed
C Am G D
Clouds rolled in from the north and it
began to rain
G
D/F# Em Em7
It rained real hard and it rained for a real long time
C Am G D
Six feet of water in the streets of
Evangeline
Verse 2:
G
D/F# Em Em7
The river rose all day the river rose all night
C Am G D
Some people got lost in the flood some
people got away all right
G D/F# Em Em7
The river had busted through clear down
to Plaquemine
C Am G D
Six feet of water in the streets of
Evangeline
Chorus:
G B7
Em D
Louisiana, Louisiana
C Am G D
They’re trying to wash us away, they’re trying to wash us away.
G B7
Em D
Louisiana, Louisiana
C Am G D
They’re trying to wash us away,
they’re trying to wash us away.
G
D/F# Em Em7
President Coolidge came down in a railroad
train
C Am G D
With a little man with a notepad in his hand
G
D/F# Em Em7
President say “little man ain’t it a shame,
C Am G D
What the river has done to this poor
crackers' land”?
Chorus
Repeat Verse 2
Chorus
End on G
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