Randy Newman – Louisiana 1927 (Ukulele)

       g-C-E-A
Bm7    2-2-2-2
Em7    0-2-0-2
A7     0-1-0-0

Cadd9  0-2-0-3
B7     2-3-2-2

 * Em7 LINK
  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
A|2---2-----------|
E|0---0--00-0-0-0-|
C|2---2-2-2-2-2---|
g|0---0---0-2-0---|

G           Bm7                       Em7 LINK
   What has happened down here is the wind has changed

A7               Cadd9                    C              G   C Cadd9 
   Clouds rolled in from the north and it starts to rain

G                Bm7                    * Em7 LINK
  It rained real hard and it rained for a real long time

A7                       Cadd9            G      C G   C Cadd9  
Six feet of water in the streets of Evangeline

G            Bm7                  * Em7 LINK
   The river rose all day the river rose all night

A7                Cadd9             C                  G       C  Cadd9
  Some people got lost in the flood   some people got away all right

G               Bm7                        * Em7 LINK
  The river had busted through clear down to Plaquemine

A7                       Cadd9            G      C G    C Cadd9 [G]
Six feet of water in the streets of Evangeline      [Loui --   siana]

[C G    C Cadd9 G   Bm7      B7    Em  G7  
     Loui------siana,      Loui---siana      

                  C            Cadd9               C        G  
They're trying to wash us away,  they're trying to wash us away

C     Cadd9  G   Bm7      B7    Em  G7  
   Loui----siana,      Loui---siana      

                  C            Cadd9               C        G    C  Cadd9
They're trying to wash us away,  they're trying to wash us away

G            Bm7                   * Em7 LINK
   President Coolidge came down in a railroad train

       A7                    Cadd9          C      G     C  Cadd9  
With a little fat man with a notepad in his hand

G                         Bm7                  * Em7 LINK
   President say: "Little fat man isn't it a shame,

         A7                Cadd9               G      C G     C Cadd9 [G]
What the river has done to this poor crackers' land?"     [Loui--    siana]

[C G    C Cadd9] G   Bm7      B7    Em  G7  
     Loui------siana,      Loui---siana      

                  C            Cadd9               C        G  
They're trying to wash us away,  they're trying to wash us away

C     Cadd9 G   Bm7    B7  Em  G7  
   Louisi - ana,    Louisi-ana      

                  C            Cadd9               C        G    
They're trying to wash us away,  they're trying to wash us away

C         G         A7           Cadd9               C             G
  They're trying to wash us away,  they're trying to wash us away