Levon Helm - Kingfish lyrics

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[Levon Helm - Kingfish lyrics]

There's a hundred thousand Frenchmen
In New Orleans
In New Orleans there are Frenchmen everywhere
But, your house could fall down
Your baby could drown
Wouldn't none of those Frenchmen care

Everybody gather 'round
Loosen up your suspenders
Hunker down on the ground i'm a cracker
And you are too
But don't I take good care of you
Who built the highway to Baton Rouge?
Who put up the hospital
And built you schools?
Who looks after shit-kickers like you?
The Kingfish do

Who gave a party at the Roosevelt Hotel?
And invited the whole north half of
The state down there for free

The people in the city
Had their eyes bugging out
Cause everyone of you looked just like me

Kingfish, Kingfish everybody sing
Kingfish, Kingfish every man a king

Who took on the Standard Oil men
And whipped their ass
Just like he promised he'd do?
Ain't no Standard Oil men
Gonna run this state
Gonna be run by little folks like me and you

Kingfish, Kingfish friend of the working man
Kingfish, Kingfish
The Kingfish gonna save this land

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