Chords for Howard Tate - "Live" (Singing) Louisiana 1927

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_ _ _ [A] _ In between whether this [G] is going to be a red [D] state or a blue state.
[G] And you have a Democratic governor and a Republican _ president [A] and there's all sorts [G] of tension
there and it's slowed things down tremendously.
Are you suggesting that a Republican president doesn't care about [C] citizens of this country
who are Democrats?
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_ _ _ _ [E] Here's the president [Em] now, he's been in New Orleans for a couple [C] of hours.
He's speaking in this park mainly [F] for [G] Andrew Jackson.
I'm speaking to you from the city of New Orleans.
_ Nearly empty, [F#] _ [G] still partly underwater and waiting for life and hope to return.
_ Millions of lives [C] were changed in a day by a cruel [G] and wasteful storm. _ _
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_ _ _ _ What has [Bm] happened down here [Em] is the wind have changed. _ _ _
_ [G] _ Clouds rolling from [C] the north and it start to rain.
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[Am] _ [G] _ Rain real hard and [Bm] it rain for a [Em] real long time.
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_ _ [A] Six feet of water in [C] the streets of _ [G] Evangeline. _ _ _ _ _
_ River rose all day, [Bm] river rose all night.
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_ [C#] Some people got [C] lost in the flood.
_ Some people got away [G] alright. _
_ _ The river have busted [Bm] through, _ cleared down the plaque of mine.
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_ _ [C#] Six feet of water in [C] the streets of [G] _ Evangeline.
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[B] Louisiana, Louisiana, [Em] _ _ _ _ [B] _
they are [G] trying to wash us away,
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they are [C] trying to wash us [G] away.
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_ [G] Louisiana, _ _ _ [Bm] _ _
[B] _ [Em] Louisiana, _ _ _ [G] _
they are trying [C] to wash us away, _ _
they are trying to wash us [G] away.
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_ _ [G] _ President [D] Coolidge came down in a [Em] railroad train with _ _ [A] a little fat man [C] with a notepad
in his hand. _ _ _ _
[G] _ The president say, little [Bm] fat man, isn't it [Em] a shame what _ _
_ [G] [A] the river has done [C] to this poor
[G] crack of land?
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In [G] Louisiana, _ _ [F#m] _ _
[B] _ [Em] Louisiana, _ _ _ [Dm] _
they're [C] tryin' to wash us away. _ _
They're tryin' to wash us [G] away.
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[Am] In [G] Louisiana, _ [Em] _ [F#m] _ _
_ [B] _ [Em] Louisiana, _ _ [G] _
they're [C] tryin' to wash us away. _ _
They're trying to wash us [G] away.
_ [C] They're [G] _ _ [A] trying to wash us away.
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They're trying to wash us away.
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_ [G#] _ _ _ Make sure [N] that it gets to the people who need it the most.
And [G] that's what we need our president to do. _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ What [Bm] has happened down here is [Em] the wind have changed. _ _ _
_ _ [Gm] Clouds rolling in [C] from the north and it's starting to rain.
_ [G] _ _
[Am] _ [G] _ Rain real hard [Bm] and it rained for a [Em] real long time.
_ _ [G] _
_ _ [A] Six feet of water [C] in the streets of _ [G] Evangeline. _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ [G] River rose all day, [Bm] river rose all [Em] night. _ _ _ _ _
_ [C#] Some people got lost [C] in the flood.
_ Some people got away [N] alright. _