Key: C major
Verse 1
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Look! Up in the sky!
It's a bird! It's a plane! It's...
Oh, hell yeah,
I'm with you, New Orleans.
Bring this bird down to 8 ,000 feet
and let's have a little seat. Oh, no.
Oh, no, that's not good at all.
Your city's wet. Really wet.
It must be twice as bad on the ground.
Twice as bad? Twice as bad?!
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You think?
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Shame, shame, shame on you,
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Shame, shame, shame what you have done
We was on the ropes,
we were down and out
You flew on over,
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never did come down
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shame what you have done
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Now, Georgie, I think it's all well and good
for you to do what you can
for those wet -colored folks.
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I know you mean well,
but I was just over at the Astrodome.
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Now, Mom, you know the Strohs don't play there no more.
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It ain't like we don't have room in Houston.
and practically part of the
neighborhood,
and lots of people are camped out
like they own the 50 -yard line,
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and it's way nicer than where they
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were before the storm,
so they're doing very well
Okay, yeah, that's kind
of that up.
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Barbara Bush actually sent some of that shit!
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Astro don't flow.
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Bob Rock.
Shame, shame, shame on you now,
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Barbara
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shame about what you've done
So dig it, now we got the
people of New Orleans
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living on Air Force bases
and in ratty -ass motels
from Utah to Georgia,
Yeah, that's right, they don't
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coming back to New Orleans.
But I'll tell you what,
New Orleans without poor people ain't New Orleans
Because it's the people
without a pot to piss in
to this messed up white boy
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Because whichever 14 -year -old
from Lafitte Projects
He's stuck out there and he's
bum -fucked Texas
He can't get home to
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Shame, shame,
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shame at what you've done!
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsC D Eb Em F...
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