There's a hundred-thousand Frenchmen in New Orleans
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In New Orleans there are 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 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 I take good care of you
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Who built the highway to Baton Rouge?
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Who put up the hospital and built your 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 Roosevelt Hotel?
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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 looked just like me
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Here comes the Kingfish, the Kingfish
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Everybody sing
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Here's the Kingfish, the Kingfish
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Every man a king
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Who took on the 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 Oil men gonna run this state
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Gonna be run by little folks like me and you
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Here's the Kingfish, the Kingfish
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Friend of the working man
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The Kingfish, the Kingfish
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The Kingfish gonna save this land
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Kingfish
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| Levon Helm |
