Randy Newman: "Louisiana 1927"

[RandomKoolzip]

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 clear down to Plaquemines
Six feet of water in the streets of Evangeline

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."

CHORUS

New Orleans was my home for five years. I miss it terribly right now.

[southlandshari]

1. KICK n/t

[RandomKoolzip]

2. Thank you....

A very sad song just got a lot sadder.

[southlandshari]

3. You have no idea, darlin'. I owe you the thanks....

Those lyrics - a song I know well, and an area of the country I know even better - just brought serious tears to my eyes. Damn anyone who wants to make jokes about this or political hay of the destruction that will hit the Louisiana/Mississippi coastline shortly....

[RandomKoolzip]

5. I walked home tonight with this song on my iPod....

And seriously cried for the first time in a while.

[southlandshari]

7. Just know that you are not alone.

I share your tears for New Orleans, for Louisiana, for Mississippi, and for the thousands upon thousands of people who are going to faced with rebuilding their lives shortly.

And I will get fucking redneck on anyone's ass who tries to make fun of what is likely to happen in the next few hours.

Hang in there, friend. I feel what you are feeling.

:hug:

[RandomKoolzip]

8. Unfortunately, I lost track of most of my friends from New Orleans....

But I guess I'm feeling for them anyways, and I'm in distress that I may not ever be able to return...I love(d?) that place.

Yeah, and fuck those who can think of this solely in political terms. There's no place for that here.

[Daphne08]

11. I'm with you.

Louisiana is my home, and although I haven't lived there in three years, I will go back home soon!

By the way, my grandmother got caught in the flood of '27 and had to be rescued by her brothers. She used to tell me the stories about it when I was little.

[CountAllVotes]

4. my late mother

was born there in 1928 and was in an orphanage in New Orleans.

So, yeah, I know what you mean alright.

:kick:

[RandomKoolzip]

6. Wow....

Thanks for that...so much history is gonna be gone by tomorrow; pretty soon, it'll be up to us to share New Orleans memories without the benefit of a landscape with which to reference. So very very tragic....:hug:

[CountAllVotes]

9. yes very sad

I've been trying to find out who she was my entire life; I have a very few answers from some of the old records found in Louisiana. Now no records will be left at all. I have what I have and that is it I guess, including the "original" adoption papers. I also have lot's of pictures of Louisiana among her things. She passed away several years ago. No history on her whatsoever. Who was she?

I cannot believe this is happening. I am very sad for everyone involved in this which is everyone here in the USA and other people/places that may have a connection to this place.

:dem: :kick:

[enigmatic]

10. I lived there for a year in 1990

On Magazine Street; this is killing me inside, too.

[southlandshari]

12. Hugs, darlin'.

This is too awful to comprehend for any of us with ties to southern Louisiana, New Orleans in particular.

Let's all hope and/or pray (if you are so inclined) for the unexpected here.

It is already raining cats and dogs in central Alabama. I hope to wake to better news in a few hours.

:grouphug:

[enigmatic]

13. I hope so, Shari

:hug:

[southlandshari]

14. Kick. n/t