Introductory Comments: My mother's family was and still is, and she was, from New Orleans. And it's a great city. There's no place like it. Maybe Monchengladbach's a little like it. But they do some things well, like food and music and things like that; but construction--they're not good at. Anyway, this is a song they had about a flood in 1927.

What has happened down here is the wind have changed,
Clouds ⁽¹⁾ in from the north and it started to rain
Rained real ⁽²⁾ and rained for a real ⁽³⁾ time,
Six ⁽⁴⁾ of water in the streets of Evangeline.
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The river ⁽⁵⁾ all day
The ⁽⁶⁾ all night
Some people got ⁽⁷⁾ in the flood
Some people got ⁽⁸⁾ alright
The river have busted through clear down to Plaquemines
Six feet of water in the streets of Evangeline.
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CHORUS
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
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President Coolidge come down in a railroad train
With a little fat man with a ⁽⁹⁾ in his hand
The President say, "Little fat man isn't it a ⁽¹⁰⁾
what the river has done to this poor crackers land."