The Destruction of New Orleans-Daniel Kahn/the Painted Bird

[00:07.253]Good people, by now you have heard [00:14.199]What in New Orleans has gone down [00:21.588]An American city has overturned [00:28.510]& there many good people have drowned [00:34.800]Well just imagine, good people, the ruin [00:42.539]How terrible is the wrath of the Lord [00:49.972]With the water from the lake down to Bourbon [00:56.934]From Canal to the Lower Ninth Ward [02:01.922]Two lovers, they are peacefully lying [02:08.618]In a peace not a soul could disturb [02:15.320]But they cried out "my dear god, we are dying" [02:22.672]But the president seems not to have heard [02:29.620]Well just imagine, good people, the ruin [02:37.303]Of the ones that we choose to ignore [02:44.641]With the water from the lake down to Bourbon [02:51.591]From Canal to the Lower Ninth Ward