This is a song about my mother's town, which is incapable of fixing itself and someone should've fixed it.
What has happened down here is the wind have changed
Clouds roll in from the north and it start to rain
It rained real hard and it 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 has busted through clear down to Plaqueminе
Six feet of water in the streets of Evangelinе
Louisiana, Louisiana
They're tryin 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 come down in a railroad train
With a little fat man with a notepad in his hand
President say, "Little Fat Man, ain't it a shame
What the river has done to this poor cracker's land"
Louisiana, Louisiana
They're tryin 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
They're tryin' to wash us away
They're tryin' to wash us away
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