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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-B-G-D-A-E
C/A 0-1-0-0-0-x
C/B 0-1-0-x-2-x
C/D 0-1-0-0-x-x
C/E 0-1-0-2-x-x
C/G 0-1-0-2-x-3
C(add9) 0-3-0-2-3-x
G/B 3-3-0-0-2-x
G/D 3-0-0-0-x-x
G7/D 1-0-0-0-x-x or
x-0-0-3-5-x
Bm7/F# 2-3-2-4-2-2
B7/F# 2-4-2-4-2-2
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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