Your Simply Amazing Stuck in My Head Song of the Day

Since the moment when I woke up this morning I've only had one song stuck in my head, for rather unfortunate reasons. ( but first, in an attempt to lighten the mood; how pissed would you be if you were named Katrina and then all of a sudden the most infamous hurricane ever bears your name. Don't you wish it would have occurred later and been named Lawrence or something? And what American parent in the next 20 years will name their kid Katrina?) And though the song was written in the 70s about another great flood it fit perfectly what happened in the aftermath of Katrina. The first time I heard it in a documentary that one of my professors had made about Common Ground Relief over Thanksgiving of 2005, I listened to it so many times in a row and couldn't stop crying. I'll never be able to get the chorus out of my head "Louisiana, Louisiana. They tryin' to wash us away, they tryin' to wash us away." It certainly seemed that's what the government was doing. Anyway the song is Louisiana 1927 by Randy Newman. It'll break your heart.
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

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."

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

Louisiana 1927 (lyrics)(mp3)

never forget.

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