Chords for Hugh Laurie - Louisiana 1927

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_ _ And that's_
I know I keep saying this, but forgive me, that is a really old song. _
There are some people who believe that that song _ _ is based on an old English folk song from the 18th century. _ _ _ _ _ _
Called_
I think it's called The Rake's Ruin.
I don't know if you know what a rake is.
A man who lives a bad life.
He lives a bad life, he comes to a bad end.
_ In St.
James' Hospital for _ leprosy and venereal disease.
There _ _ are people_
yeah, I don't know what that means.
_ _ [Am] _
There are people who believe that [N] that _ hospital, referred to in that original song,
is what is now _ St.
James' Palace in London, where the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge live. _ _
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I'm sure they've cleaned up. _ _
_ _ But I _ _ [A] just think it's very beautiful that there are these little ideas and stories [N] and characters
and the roots of verse that _ _ _ survive hundreds of years, their great empires and reasons fall,
and yet there's always this_ _ _ _
_ [Am] keep us all together because we're all human and that's_
I find that very beautiful.
I _ know_ _
_ _ _ There may be only three [N] people in the world interested in this.
_ _ Or one of them may be here tonight. _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ I'm sure most of you will, of course, remember the terrible events of Hurricane Katrina.
_ _ _ _ It struck the state of Louisiana.
_ _ _ The devastation that that terrible hurricane caused, _ but_
sad to say, of course, that's not the only time that the _ _ _ disaster has struck. _ _ _
_ There was a flood in the year of _ 1927, the Mississippi River.
[E] _ Burst of spanks _ [Db] flooded the surrounding states, covered thousands and thousands of [E] people. _
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_ The Mississippi River at some point was a hundred kilometers wide.
_ _ And the devastation it caused, the loss of life, the _ _ loss of livelihood for hundreds of thousands of people was truly terrible.
_ _ The great Randy Newman wrote a song about that awful deluge, that catastrophe,
which of course became _ _ _ more poignant because of these terrible events.
It _ almost doesn't matter which event you apply to, it's _ _ _ _ _ something of that_
Let's go to Louisiana, 1927.
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_ _ _ [F] _ The river [C]
rose all day [Dm] and it goes all night.
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Some people [Bb] got lost in the flood. _ _
Some people got [F] away all [Bb] right. _
[F] _ _ The river [C] has busted through, cleared [Dm] down to block a mile.
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_ _ _ [Dm] _ [G] Six feet of water on [Bb] the streets of _ [F] _ Evangelion.
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Louisiana, [Dm] Louisiana.
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They try to [Bb] wash us away.
_ _ _ They try to wash us away.
[F] _ _ [Bb] _ _ [F] Louisiana, _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ [A] _ _
[Dm] Louisiana.
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_ They're trying [Bb] to wash us away. _
_ _ They're trying to wash us away.
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[C] President Coolidge came on [Dm] a railroad train, [D] _ _ _ _ [Dm] _ [G] little fat man [Bb] with a notepad in his [F] hand.
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_ [F] _ _ The president [C] said, _ well [Dm] ain't that a shame, _ _ _ _ _ [G] the river hands down [Bb] to this poor [F] cracker's land. _
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[F] _ _ _ _ _ [C] _ [A] Louisiana, [Dm] Louisiana, _ _ _ _ [F] _ _
_ they're [Bb] trying to wash us away, _ _ _ _ they're trying to wash us away.
[F] _ _ _ [Bb] _ [F] Louisiana, _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ [A] _ [Dm] Louisiana, _ _ _ _ [F] _ _ _
they're trying [Bb] to wash us away, _ _ _ they're trying to wash us away, [F] _ _ _ they're
They're trying [G] to wash us away.
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They're trying to [F] wash us [Gm] away.
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