Kingfish

Well, there's a hundred thousand Frenchmen in New Orleans

In New Orleans, there are Frenchmen everywhere

But your house could burn down, all your babies could drown

Wouldn't none of them Frenchmen care

Everybody, gather round

Loosen up your suspenders, hunker down on the ground

I'm a cracker, and you're one too

But don't I take good care of you?

Who built the highway to Baton Rouge?

Who put up your hospital and built your schools?

Who really looks after shit-kickers like you?

You know the Kingfish do

Who thrown the big party down 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 come the Kingfish, yeah, the Kingfish

Everybody sing

Here come the Kingfish, oh, 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?

But ain't no Standard Oil men gonna run this state

It's gonna be run by folks like me and you

Here come the Kingfish, oh, the Kingfish

Friend of the working man

Here come the Kingfish, the Kingfish

Kingfish gonna save this land

Here come the Kingfish, oh, the Kingfish

Friend of the working man

Here come the Kingfish, oh, the Kingfish

Kingfish gonna save this land