Kingfish

Kingfish - Levon Helm

Well there's a hundred thousand frenchmen in New Orleans

In New Orleans there are frenchmen everywhere

But your house could fall down

All 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

You are too

But don't I take care of you

Who built the highway to Baton Rouge

Who put up the hospital and built your schools

Who looks after

Sh*t kickers like you

The now Kingfish do

Who gave a party at the roosevelt hotel

Invited the whole north half

Of the state down for free

Everybody in the city

Had their eyes bugging out

'Cause everybody looked like me

Here comes the kingfish the kingfish

Everybody sing

Here's the kingfish the kingfish

Make every man a king

Who took on the standard oil men

And whipped their ass

Just like he promised he'd do morning

But ain't no standard oil men

Gonna run this state

Gonna be run by little folks like me and you

Here's the kingfish the kingfish

Friend of the working man

Here come

The kingfish the kingfish

Kingfish gonna save this land

Here's the kingfish the kingfish

Friend of the working man

Here come kingfish oh the kingfish

Kingfish gonna save this land