Randy Newman: "Louisiana 1927"

[Hissyspit]

Louisiana 1927
Randy Newman
"Good Old Boys"

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 Evangelne

CHORUS
Louisiana, Louisiana
They're tyrin' 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 tyrin' 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

[southlandshari]

1. Heartbreaking.

This was posted in the wee hours yesterday as some of us watched, unable to look away from, the heartbreaking approach of Hurricane Katrina....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x3931968

[Hissyspit]

6. It's heartwrenching. Was listening to it a few months ago... Now w/Bush's

reaction, I guess it deserves to be posted again.

[punpirate]

2. "... the land of dreams"

Also Randy Newman:

"Dixie Flyer"

I was born right here November '43
My dad was a captain in the army
Fighting the Germans in Sicily.
My poor little momma
Didn't know a soul in L.A.
So we went down to the Union Station and made our getaway.
Got on the Dixie Flyer bound for New Orleans
Across the state of Texas to the land of dreams.
On the Dixie Flyer bound for New Orleans
Back to her friends and her family in the land of dreams.
Her own mother came to meet us at the station,
Her dress as black as a crow in a coal mine
She cried when her little girl got off the train.
Her brothers and her sisters drove down from Jackson, Mississippi
In a great green Hudson driven by a Gentile they knew.
Drinkin' rye whiskey from a flask in the back seat
Tryin' to do like the Gentiles do
Christ, they wanted to be Gentiles, too.
Who wouldn't down there, wouldn't you?
An American Christian, God damn!
On the Dixie Flyer bound for New Orleans
Back to her friends and her family in the land of dreams
On the Dixie Flyer bound for New Orleans
Across the state of Texas to the land of dreams
Across the state of Texas to the land of dreams.



It still is that--the land of dreams. There will be more.

[Journeyman]

3. What few people realize is that the Great Depression began. . .

in the Mississippi Valley in 1927. For those Valley farmers, the prosperity of the '20s never materialized, and all hope was washed away in the torrential rains of '27.

A great tale of the Flood can be found in William Faulkner's short story masterpiece, Old Man.

[Hissyspit]

5. I've read it. Tough to take. n/t

[DanCa]

4. Wow that's prophetic.

Sad and touching too.