Hissyspit
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Tue Aug-30-05 01:14 AM
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Randy Newman: "Louisiana 1927" |
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Edited on Tue Aug-30-05 01:21 AM by 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
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Tue Aug-30-05 01:21 AM
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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
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Tue Aug-30-05 01:42 AM
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6. It's heartwrenching. Was listening to it a few months ago... Now w/Bush's |
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Edited on Tue Aug-30-05 01:42 AM by Hissyspit
reaction, I guess it deserves to be posted again.
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Tue Aug-30-05 01:24 AM
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2. "... the land of dreams" |
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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.
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Tue Aug-30-05 01:26 AM
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3. What few people realize is that the Great Depression began. . . |
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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.
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Tue Aug-30-05 01:37 AM
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5. I've read it. Tough to take. n/t |
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