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Mon Aug-29-05 12:52 AM
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Randy Newman: "Louisiana 1927" |
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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 clear down to Plaquemines Six feet of water in the streets of Evangeline
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."
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New Orleans was my home for five years. I miss it terribly right now.
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Mon Aug-29-05 12:53 AM
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Mon Aug-29-05 12:55 AM
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A very sad song just got a lot sadder.
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Mon Aug-29-05 12:58 AM
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3. You have no idea, darlin'. I owe you the thanks.... |
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Those lyrics - a song I know well, and an area of the country I know even better - just brought serious tears to my eyes. Damn anyone who wants to make jokes about this or political hay of the destruction that will hit the Louisiana/Mississippi coastline shortly....
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Mon Aug-29-05 01:00 AM
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5. I walked home tonight with this song on my iPod.... |
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And seriously cried for the first time in a while.
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Mon Aug-29-05 01:05 AM
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7. Just know that you are not alone. |
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I share your tears for New Orleans, for Louisiana, for Mississippi, and for the thousands upon thousands of people who are going to faced with rebuilding their lives shortly.
And I will get fucking redneck on anyone's ass who tries to make fun of what is likely to happen in the next few hours.
Hang in there, friend. I feel what you are feeling.
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Mon Aug-29-05 01:10 AM
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8. Unfortunately, I lost track of most of my friends from New Orleans.... |
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But I guess I'm feeling for them anyways, and I'm in distress that I may not ever be able to return...I love(d?) that place.
Yeah, and fuck those who can think of this solely in political terms. There's no place for that here.
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Mon Aug-29-05 01:30 AM
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Louisiana is my home, and although I haven't lived there in three years, I will go back home soon!
By the way, my grandmother got caught in the flood of '27 and had to be rescued by her brothers. She used to tell me the stories about it when I was little.
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Mon Aug-29-05 12:58 AM
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was born there in 1928 and was in an orphanage in New Orleans.
So, yeah, I know what you mean alright.
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Mon Aug-29-05 01:02 AM
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Thanks for that...so much history is gonna be gone by tomorrow; pretty soon, it'll be up to us to share New Orleans memories without the benefit of a landscape with which to reference. So very very tragic....:hug:
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Mon Aug-29-05 01:28 AM
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I've been trying to find out who she was my entire life; I have a very few answers from some of the old records found in Louisiana. Now no records will be left at all. I have what I have and that is it I guess, including the "original" adoption papers. I also have lot's of pictures of Louisiana among her things. She passed away several years ago. No history on her whatsoever. Who was she?
I cannot believe this is happening. I am very sad for everyone involved in this which is everyone here in the USA and other people/places that may have a connection to this place.
:dem: :kick:
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Mon Aug-29-05 01:29 AM
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10. I lived there for a year in 1990 |
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On Magazine Street; this is killing me inside, too.
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Mon Aug-29-05 02:08 AM
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This is too awful to comprehend for any of us with ties to southern Louisiana, New Orleans in particular.
Let's all hope and/or pray (if you are so inclined) for the unexpected here.
It is already raining cats and dogs in central Alabama. I hope to wake to better news in a few hours.
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