Just listened to Marcia Ball doing Randy Newman's Louisianna

[randr]

Tears in my eyes.

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."

CHORUS

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[peekaloo]

1. I was listening to that song yesterday.

Always loved it but yesterday was the first time it made me cry.

[Voltaire]

2. First thing this morning

I got up and put that one on the CD player. And cried like a baby for the entire Gulf Coast and for us all. For we are all in trouble now.

[Hobarticus]

3. I always loved the Neviile Bros. version...

Very heartfelt. Never more so than now.

[fudge stripe cookays]

4. This is the one that kept going through my head yesterday....

Poco's "Heart of the Night." I loved this song when I was junior high.

In the heart of the night
In the cool southern rain
There's a full moon in sight
Shining down on the Pontchartrain

And the river she rises
Like she used to do
She's so full of surprises
She reminds me of you
In the heart of the night

There's a nightbird singing
Right on through till the dawn
And the streets are still ringing
With people carrying on

It's been so long waiting
Just to be here again
Anticipating
All the time I could spend
In the heart of the night down in New Orleans
In the heart of the night down in New Orleans

And I trust in your love never falling down
And I trust in your love
Just like I do in this town never falling down

And I'm so glad to be back in New Orleans
Please don't wake me, don't shake me,
If this is only just a dream
It's the only place I can face that feels so right
Below that Dixie moon and loving you
In the Heart of the Night