Songs about Historical Events (5) - Great Mississippi Flood (1927)

Een van de grootste natuurrampen in de Amerikaanse geschiedenis is de Great Mississippi Flood van 1927. De overstroming maakte 700.000 mensen in Louisiana en Mississippi dakloos. Nooit eerder richtte een overstroming in de Verenigde Staten zoveel schade aan. 246 mensen kwamen om het leven. Lees over deze gebeurtenis verder op Historiek.

Randy Newman die een band had met Louisiana - zijn moeder kwam er vandaan en hij bracht er vakanties door - schreef het nummer Louisiana 1927 in 1974. Het staat op het album Good Old Boys. In 2005 werd het nummer vaak gedraaid. Opnieuw was de zuidelijke staat getroffen door natuurgeweld, ditmaal door de orkaan Katrina.

Louisiana 1927 - lyrics
What has happened down here is the wind have changed
Clouds roll in from the north and it start to rain
Rained real hard and it rained for a real long time
Six feet of water in the streets of Evangeline

River rose all day, the river rose all night
Some people got lost in the flood, some people got away alright
River have busted through clear down to Plaquemine
Six feet of water in the streets of Evangeline

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, isn'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