The Flood Lyrics - Eilen Jewell

Poisoned streets 

Full of blood 

The people can do nothing 

To hold back the flood 

The water takes them 

Not one life line 

Everyone just standing 

Ringing their hands and crying 

Can anyone among us please explain 

What went down on the banks of the Ponchartrain? 

No sir I don't believe it was the hurricane 

That lay New Orleans out to waste 

Blown-out windows, 

Rooftops gone 

Every soul 

Singing a funeral song 

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Look at the pictures 

All black faces 

Our leaders call themselves distracted 

I call them racists 

Can anyone among you please explain 

What went down on the banks of the Ponchartrain? 

It's you our leader who's to blame 

You lay sweet New Orleans out to waste 

And if I had 

Had my way 

I'd pull them all outta there 

And I'd make you stay 

For a storm 

All your own 

And I'd be that old hurricane 

And I'd wash away all your gold 

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Your wife and children 

Would have no home 

You'd be left there in those waters 

Naked and alone 

In the streets 

Of poisoned blood 

Now what you gonna do 

To hold back the flood?