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What has happened down here is the wind has changed

Clouds rolled in from the north and it starts to rain

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It rained real hard and it rained for a real long time

Six feet of water in the streets of Evangeline

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The river rose all day the river rose all night

Some people got lost in the flood some people got away all right

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The river had busted through clear down to Plaquemine

Six feet of water in the streets of Evangeline [Loui-- siana]

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Loui----siana, Loui---siana

 They're trying to wash us away, they're trying to wash us away

Loui----siana, Loui---siana

 They're trying to wash us away, they're trying to wash us away

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President Coolidge came down in a railroad train

 With a little fat man with a notepad in his hand

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President say: "Little fat man isn't it a shame,

 What the river has done to this poor crackers' land?" [Loui-- siana]

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Loui----siana, Loui---siana

 They're trying to wash us away, they're trying to wash us away

Louisiana, Louisiana

 They're trying to wash us away, they're trying to wash us away

They're trying to wash us away, they're trying to wash us away