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  1. Oh, Louisiana

From the recording Oh, Louisiana

<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;"><strong><img src="http://theprimecutts.com/img/Going_Down_Down_The_Road_Feeling_Glad.jpg" alt="" width="191" height="131" /></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">I became fascinated reading an article about southeastern Louisiana, New Orleans, and the Mississippi River in <em>The New Yorker</em>, and . . .&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;"><strong>&copy; 2019 Steven E. Cutts </strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;"><strong>recorded and mixed in the fall of 2019 </strong>by Jim Robeson</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">Steve, <em>guitar</em> and <em>vocal</em></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">Bill Starks, <em>piano and Wurlitzer organ</em></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">Fred Travers, <em>dobro</em></span></p>

Lyrics

<p style="text-align: left;" align="center"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">Oh, Louisiana, Louisiana,</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;" align="center"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">you are sliding beneath the water.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;" align="center"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">The whole Delta&rsquo;s sinking inch by inch</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;" align="center"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">into the Gulf of Mexico.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;" align="center"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">The Mississippi built you up,</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;" align="center"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">but in these days of rising seas</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;" align="center"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">just where the bayou meets the ocean</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;" align="center"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">is hard to know.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;" align="center"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">&nbsp;</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;" align="center"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">All that hurricanes tried but failed to do</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;" align="center"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">will be finished by different means.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;" align="center"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">The silt that settled from up north</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;" align="center"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">is now oozing away east of New Orleans.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;" align="center"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">We could work for years to save what&rsquo;s left</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;" align="center"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">but no matter how we&rsquo;d try</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;" align="center"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">to stop the Delta from dissolving</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;" align="center"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">is just a dream.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;" align="center"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">&nbsp;</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;" align="center"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">Nature makes no promises</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;" align="center"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">that she feels she needs to keep.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;" align="center"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">You thought the solid land belonged to you,</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;" align="center"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">but it&rsquo;s lying six-foot deep.</span><br /><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;"> We&rsquo;ve tampered with the river;</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;" align="center"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">what we sow is what we reap.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;" align="center"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">Oh, Louisiana.&nbsp; Oh, Louisiana.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;" align="center"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">&nbsp;</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;" align="center"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">There is water, water everywhere</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;" align="center"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">that the levees cannot contain,</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;" align="center"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">from Birdfoot to Vermillion Bay</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;" align="center"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">to the murky Pontchartrain.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;" align="center"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">There&rsquo;s no Moses here to turn the tide,</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;" align="center"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">so the exodus goes on.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;" align="center"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">There&rsquo;ll be fish and birds, but the people cannot remain.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;" align="center"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;"><strong><em>&nbsp;</em></strong>There&rsquo;ll be fish and birds, but the people cannot remain.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;" align="center"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">Oh, Louisiana.&nbsp; Oh, Louisiana.</span></p>