Tabbed by: maguri Tuning: Standard Randy Newman Louisiana 1927 (1974) (Randy Newman) *E5 LINK e | ----------0----- | B | 3---3--03-0-3-0- | G | 0---0-2-2---2-0- | D | 2--------------- | A | ---------------- | E | ---------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- G5 B5 *E5 LINK What has happened down here is the wind has changed A5 C5 C5 G5 C5 G5 Clouds rolled in from the north and it starts to rain G5 B5 *E5 LINK It rained real hard and it rained for a real long time A5 C5 G5 C5 G5 C5 C5 Six feet of water in the streets of Evangeline G5 B5 *E5 LINK The river rose all day the river rose all night A5 C5 C5 G5 C5 G5 Some people got lost in the flood some people got away all right G5 B5 *E5 LINK The river had busted through clear down to Plaquemine A5 C5 G5 C5 G5 C5 C5 [ G5 ] Six feet of water in the streets of Evangeline [Loui-- siana] [ C5 G5 C5 C5 ] G5 B5 B5 E5 G5 Loui----siana, Loui---siana C5 C5 C5 G5 They're trying to wash us away, they're trying to wash us away C5 C5 G5 B5 B5 E5 G5 Loui----siana, Loui---siana C5 C5 C5 G5 C5 C5 C5 They're trying to wash us away, they're trying to wash us away G5 B5 *E5 LINK President Coolidge came down in a railroad train A5 C5 C5 G5 C5 G5 With a little fat man with a notepad in his hand G5 B5 *E5 LINK President say: "Little fat man isn't it a shame, A5 C5 G5 C5 G5 C5 C5 [ G5 ] What the river has done to this poor crackers' land?" [Loui-- siana] [ C5 G5 C5 C5 ] G5 B5 B5 E5 G5 Loui----siana, Loui---siana C5 C5 C5 G5 They're trying to wash us away, they're trying to wash us away C5 C5 G5 B5 B5 E5 G5 Louisiana, Louisiana C5 C5 C5 G5 They're trying to wash us away, they're trying to wash us away C5 G5 A5 C5 C5 G5 They're trying to wash us away, they're trying to wash us away