Lyrics: Randy Newman
Music: Randy Newman
Sung by Grahame Lesh with Phil Lesh & the Terrapin Family Band at a Jazz Fest celebration in 2019.
There's a hundred thousand Frenchmen in New Orleans
In New Orleans there are Frenchmen everywhere
But your house could fall down
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
And you are too
But don't I take good care of you
Who built the highway to Baton Rouge
Who put up the hospital and built you schools
Who looks after shit-kickers like you
The Kingfish do
Who gave a party at the Roosevelt Hotel
And invited the whole north half of the state down there for free
The people in the city
Had their eyes bugging out
'Cause everyone of you
Looked just like me
Here come the Kingfish, Kingfish
Everybody sing
Here come the Kingfish, Kingfish
Every 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 be run by little folks like me and you
Here come the Kingfish, Kingfish
Friend of the working man
Here come the Kingfish, Kingfish
The Kingfish gonna save this land
Here come the Kingfish, Kingfish
Friend of the working man
Here come the Kingfish, Kingfish
The Kingfish gonna save this land
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Date | Album | Recorded By | |||
1974 | Good Old Boys | Randy Newman |