G/B x-2-0-0-3-3 G/D x-x-0-0-0-3 G7/D x-x-0-0-0-1 or x-5-3-0-0-x Bm7/F# 2-2-4-4-3-2 / 2-2-4-2-4-2 *Em7 LINK [Verse] What has happened down here is the wind has changed [*Em7 LINK] Clouds rolled in from the north and it starts to rain It rained real hard and it rained for a real long time [*Em7 LINK] Six feet of water in the streets of Evangeline [Verse] The river rose all day the river rose all night [*Em7 LINK] Some people got lost in the flood some people got away all right The river had busted through clear down to Plaquemine [*Em7 LINK] Six feet of water in the streets of Evangeline [Loui-- siana] [Chorus] Loui----siana, Loui---siana They're trying to wash us away, they're trying to wash us away Loui----siana, Loui---siana They're trying to wash us away, they're trying to wash us away [Verse] President Coolidge came down in a railroad train [*Em7 LINK] With a little fat man with a notepad in his hand President say: "Little fat man isn't it a shame, [*Em7 LINK] What the river has done to this poor crackers' land?" [Loui-- siana] [Chorus] (+ coda variation) Loui----siana, Loui---siana They're trying to wash us away, they're trying to wash us away Louisiana, Louisiana They're trying to wash us away, they're trying to wash us away They're trying to wash us away, they're trying to wash us away