What has happened down here is the wind have changed   Clouds roll in from the north and it started to rain   Rained real hard and 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 have busted through cleard down to Plaquemines   Six feet of water in the streets of Evangelne      CHORUS   Louisiana, Louisiana   They're tyrin' 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 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