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Louisiana 1927 - Randy Newman
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Written by: Randy Newman
From: "Good Old Boys" (1974)
Tabbed by: maguri
Tuning: Standard
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CHORDS
E-A-D-G-B-e
C/A x-0-2-0-1-0
C/B x-2-x-0-1-0
C/D x-x-0-0-1-0
C/E x-x-2-0-1-0
C/G 3-x-2-0-1-0
C(add9) x-3-2-0-3-0
G/B x-2-0-0-3-3
G/D x-x-0-0-0-3
G7/D x-x-0-0-0-1 or
x-5-3-0-0-x
Bm7/F# 2-2-4-4-3-2
B7/F# 2-2-4-2-4-2
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*Em7 LINK
e|----------0-----|
B|3---3--03-0-3-0-|
G|0---0-2-2---2-0-|
D|2---------------|
A|----------------|
E|----------------|
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[Verse]
G Bm7 Em7
What has happened down here is the wind has changed [*Em7 LINK]
A7 C/D C/G G C G/D
Clouds rolled in from the north and it starts to rain
G Bm7 Em7
It rained real hard and it rained for a real long time [*Em7 LINK]
A7 C/D G C G/B C C/D
Six feet of water in the streets of Evangeline
[Verse]
G Bm7 Em7
The river rose all day the river rose all night [*Em7 LINK]
A7 C/D C/G G C G/D
Some people got lost in the flood some people got away all right
G Bm7 Em7
The river had busted through clear down to Plaquemine [*Em7 LINK]
A7 C/D G C G/B C C/D G ]
Six feet of water in the streets of Evangeline [Loui-- siana]
[Chorus]
[ C G/B C C/D ] G Bm7/F# B7/F# Em G7/D
Loui----siana, Loui---siana
C(add9) C/D C/E G/D
They're trying to wash us away, they're trying to wash us away
C C/D G Bm7/F# B7/F# Em G7/D
Loui----siana, Loui---siana
C(add9) C/D C/E G/D C C/B C/A
They're trying to wash us away, they're trying to wash us away
[Verse]
G Bm7 Em7
President Coolidge came down in a railroad train [*Em7 LINK]
A7 C/D C/G G C G/D
With a little fat man with a notepad in his hand
G Bm7 Em7
President say: "Little fat man isn't it a shame, [*Em7 LINK]
A7 C/D G C G/B C C/D [ G ]
What the river has done to this poor crackers' land?" [Loui-- siana]
[Chorus]
(+ coda variation)
[ C G/B C C/D ] G Bm7/F# B7/F# Em G7/D
Loui----siana, Loui---siana
C(add9) C/D C/E G/D
They're trying to wash us away, they're trying to wash us away
C C/D G Bm7/F# B7/F# Em G7/D
Louisiana, Louisiana
C(add9) C/D C/E G/D
They're trying to wash us away, they're trying to wash us away
C G/B A7 C/D C/G G
They're trying to wash us away, they're trying to wash us away