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Randy Newman
Louisiana 1927 (1974)
(Randy Newman)

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   What has happened down here is the wind has changed
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   Clouds rolled in from the north and it starts to rain
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  It rained real hard and it rained for a real long time
A7                       C/D              G      C G/B C C/D
Six feet of water in the streets of Evangeline
 

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   The river rose all day the river rose all night
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  Some people got lost in the flood   some people got away all right
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  The river had busted through clear down to Plaquemine
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Six feet of water in the streets of Evangeline      [Loui--   siana]

 
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     Loui----siana,      Loui---siana      
                  C9      C/D                 C/E      G/D
They're trying to wash us away,  they're trying to wash us away
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   Loui----siana,      Loui---siana      
                  C9      C/D                 C/E      G/D  C C/B C/A
They're trying to wash us away,  they're trying to wash us away
 

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   President Coolidge came down in a railroad train
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With a little fat man with a notepad in his hand
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   President say: "Little fat man isn't it a shame,
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What the river has done to this poor crackers' land?"     [Loui--   siana]
 

[ C G/B  C C/D ] G   Bm7/F#   B7/F# Em  G7/D
     Loui----siana,      Loui---siana      
                  C9      C/D                 C/E      G/D
They're trying to wash us away,  they're trying to wash us away
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   Louisiana,    Louisiana      
                  C9      C/D                 C/E      G/D  
They're trying to wash us away,  they're trying to wash us away
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  They're trying to wash us away,  they're trying to wash us away