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For Xavier Bowie For Jabbar Gibson For Ahmad Nelson Our Loved Ones, Known to God
Louisiana 1927
What has happened down here, is the winds have changed
Clouds roll in from the north and it started to rain
It 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 had busted through clear down to Plackermine
Six feet of water in the streets of Evangeline
Louisiana, Louisiana
They're trying to wash us away, they're trying to wash us away
Oh Louisiana, Louisiana
They're trying to wash us away, they're trying to wash us away
President Coolidge come down, in a railroad train
With his little fat man with a note pad in his hand
President say little fat man, oh isn't it a shame,
What the river has done to this poor farmer's land
Oh Louisiana, Louisiana
They're trying to wash us away, they're trying to wash us away
Oh Louisiana, oh Louisiana
They're trying to wash us away, oh Lord, they're trying to wash us away
They're trying to wash us away, they're trying to wash us away
-- Aaron Neville's edit of Randy Newman
U.S. Humane Society Katrina Disaster Relief
Louisiana Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
Houston Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals -- they've taken in 1,000 pets of evacuees
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Twenty-year-old Jabbar Gibson arrives at the Houston Astrodome at the wheel of a school bus he commandeered and filled with 100 fellow citizens of New Orleans and drove for seven hours. They were the first to arrive.
Marie LeVeau
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