A hundred-thousand
Frenchmen in
New Orleans
In New Orleans there are
Frenchmen everywhere
But your house could fall down, 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, you are too
Don't take good care of you
Who built the highway
Baton Rouge?
Who put up the hospital, built you schools?
Who looked after ****-kickers like you?
Kingfish do
Who gave a party at the
Roosevelt
Hotel?Invited whole north half of the state down there for free
People in the city had their eyes bugging out'
Cause everyone looked just like me
Here come the
Kingfish,
KingfishEverybody sing
Here's the
Kingfish, the
KingfishEvery 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 to run by little folks like me and you
Here's the
Kingfish, the
KingfishFriend of the working man
The Kingfish, the
KingfishThe
Kingfish gonna save this land