Kingfish

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 one of those Frenchmen care

Everybody gather 'round

Loosen up your suspenders, hunker down on the ground

I'm a cracker and you are too

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?

Invited the whole north half of the state down there for free

People in the city had their eyes bugging out

'Cause everyone looked just like me

Here come the Kingfish, the Kingfish

Everybody sing

Here's the Kingfish, the 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

Yes the Kingfish, the Kingfish

Friend of the working man

The Kingfish, the Kingfish

The Kingfish gonna save this land