Louisiana 1927
Randy Newman

CAPO 3rd Fret
 
G        Bm7                       Em7
What has happened down here is the wind has changed
A7            C/D                   C/G         G   C
Clouds rolled in from the north and it began to rain
G              Bm7                      Em7
It rained real hard and it rained for a real long time
A7                       C/D              G     C   
Six feet of water in the streets of Evangeline
 
VERSE 2:
G         Bm7                         Em7
The river rose all day the river rose all night
A7              C/D                    C/G                 G   
Some people got lost in the flood some people got away all right
G             Bm7                          Em7
The river had busted through clear down to Plaquemine
A7                       C/D              G     C   G
Six feet of water in the streets of Evangeline
 
CHORUS (TWICE)
C  C/D  G
Louisiana
Bm7 B7 Em
Louisiana      
 Open             C(add D)      C/D               Am7     G          
Theyre trying to wash us away. Theyre trying to wash us away.
 
G         Bm7                     Em7
President Coolidge came down in a railroad train
A7                C/D                C/G    G   
With a little fat man with a notepad in his hand
G              Bm7                    Em7
President say Little man, aint it a shame,
A7                    C/D                      G     
What the river has done to this poor crackers' land?
 
REPEAT CHORUS, REPEAT VERSE 2, REPEAT CHORUS and END on G