What has happened down here is the wind has changed
Clouds roll in from the north, and it started to rain
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 bursted through clear down to Plaquemines
Six feet of water in the streets of Evangeline.
(Chorus:)
|: Louisiana, Louisiana
|: They're tyring 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.
Chorus
|: They're trying to wash us away :|