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There's 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 |
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Your 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 |
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Hunker down on the ground |
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I'm a cracker |
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And you are too |
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But don't |
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I take good care of you |
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Who built the highway to |
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Baton Rouge? |
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Who put up the hospital and built you schools? |
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Who looks after shit-kickers like you? |
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The Kingfish do |
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Who gave a party at the |
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Roosevelt |
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Hotel? And invited the whole north half of the state down there for free |
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The people in the city |
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Had their eyes bugging out |
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Cause everyone of you |
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Looked just like me |
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Kingfish, |
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Kingfish Everybody sing |
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Kingfish, |
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Kingfish Every man a king |
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Who took on the |
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Standard Oil men |
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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 be run by little folks like me and you |
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Kingfish, |
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Kingfish Friend of the working man |
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Kingfish, |
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Kingfish The |
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Kingfish gonna save this land |