Kingfish

A hundred-thousand

Frenchmen in

New Orleans

In New Orleans there are

Frenchmen everywhere

But your house could fall down, 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, you are too

Don't take good care of you

Who built the highway

Baton Rouge?

Who put up the hospital, built you schools?

Who looked after ****-kickers like you?

Kingfish do

Who gave a party at the

Roosevelt

Hotel?Invited 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,

KingfishEverybody sing

Here's the

Kingfish, the

KingfishEvery 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 to run by little folks like me and you

Here's the

Kingfish, the

KingfishFriend of the working man

The Kingfish, the

KingfishThe

Kingfish gonna save this land