Ditty Of New Orleans
Words and Music by Arlo Guthrie
Parody and Copyright by LonePalm
Swimming through the City of New Orleans,
Hurricane Ivan, Thursday morning gale,
fifteen bars and fifteen flooded Ryders,
three instructors, twenty-five tons of whale.
Inward bound to America,
this hurricane from Africa
and rolls along through houses, farms and fields,
flat’ning towns that once had names
and school yards full of Jamaicans.
and boulevards of the rusted automobiles.
Good morning America, how are you?
Say don't you know me; I'm the Big Easy?
I'm the lake they called the City of New Orleans,
I'll be blown five hundred miles when the day is done.
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
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