Kingfish

Album: Good Old Boys (1974)
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  • 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

    Kingfish, Kingfish
    Everybody sing
    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

    Kingfish, Kingfish
    Friend of the working man
    Kingfish, Kingfish
    The Kingfish gonna save this land Writer/s: RANDY NEWMAN
    Publisher: Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 1

  • Bill from Uswell theoretically its a good old boys tribute to Huey Long, not Randy Newman's! Mr. Newman was the king of satire in song, he didn't really want to drop the bomb and I'm sure he didn't really mind short people!
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