Chords for Randy Newman - Louisiana 1927

_ _ _ _ [G] _ My mother's family was and still is and she was from New Orleans and
It's a great city.
There's no
No place like it.
Maybe Munchengladbach's a little like it but
They do some things well
like food and music and things like that, but construction
They're not good at anyway.
This is a song about a flood they had in 1927 _
[C] _ [G] _ _ _ _ [D] _ [G] _ _
_ _ _ [C] _ [G] _ [Em] _ [G] _ _
_ _ [Bm] What has happened down [Em] here?
The wind had changed _
[A] Clouds [C] roll [G] in from the [C] north and start to rain
[G] _
_ _ [Bm] Rain real hard and rain [Em] for a real long time
six [A] feet of [C] water in the [G] streets of the land
[C] River _ [G] _ _ [Bm] rose all [Em] day the river rose all [D] night
Some [A] _ [C] people got lost in the flood
Some [G] people got away all right
[Bm] River has busted through
[Em] down the plaque of mine
_ [A] six feet of [D] water in the [G] streets of Angelina
[C] _
[G] Louisiana
_ [D] _ _ [B] [Em] Louisiana
[G] They're trying to [C] wash us away
[D] They're [C] trying to [G] wash us [C] away
[G] Louisiana _ [D] _ [B] [Em] Louisiana _
[G] _ They're trying [C] to wash us away
[D] [C] They're trying to wash [G] us [C] away
[G] _ _ [Bm] Preston Cootie's come down [Em] a railroad train
[D] _ _ [A] Little fat [C] man with no bed in his hand
_ [G] _ _ _ [Bm] President's a little fat man.
[Em] He'd be ashamed
What [A] the river has done [C] this [G] poor crackers land?
_ [C] _ [G] Louisiana
_ [D] _ [B] _ [Em] _
Louisiana
[G] That [C] child worshers wait
[D] [G] They're [C] trying to [G] wash us [C] away
[G] Louisiana
_ [D] _ [B] _
[Em] Louisiana
[G] They're trying to wash [C] us away
They're trying to [G] wash us [C] away
[G] They're [A] trying to wash [C] us away
They're trying to wash us away
_ [G] _ _ _