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A hundred-thousand |
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Frenchmen in |
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New Orleans |
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In New Orleans there are |
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Frenchmen everywhere |
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But your house could fall down, baby could drown |
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Wouldn't none of those |
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Frenchmen care |
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Everybody gather 'round |
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Loosen up your suspenders, hunker down on the ground |
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I'm a cracker, you are too |
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Don't take good care of you |
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Who built the highway |
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Baton Rouge? |
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Who put up the hospital, built you schools? |
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Who looked after shit-kickers like you? |
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Kingfish do |
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Who gave a party at the |
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Roosevelt |
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Hotel?Invited whole north half of the state down there for free |
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People in the city had their eyes bugging out' |
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Cause everyone looked just like me |
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Here come the |
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Kingfish, |
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KingfishEverybody sing |
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Here's the |
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Kingfish, the |
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KingfishEvery man a king |
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Who took on the |
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Standard Oil men and whipped their ass |
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Just like he promised he'd do? |
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Ain't no Standard |
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Oil men gonna run this state |
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Gonna to run by little folks like me and you |
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Here's the |
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Kingfish, the |
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KingfishFriend of the working man |
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The Kingfish, the |
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KingfishThe |
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Kingfish gonna save this land |
