Save New Orleans

[roymond]

Save New Orleans - by roymond

when you saw - what happened down there
you've nowhere to live - nothing to wear
and you sensed - that we didn't care
that's when you knew

when you're left to live in dispair
can't eat no food - can't wash no hair
and when you cried - cause we still ain't there
who could blame you

if you can save new orleans
all the love and all the sin
it will float
in its moat
but it won't be what it'd been
if you can save new orleans
it will only be alive within you...

[Bjam]

Dear Mum, Please run away
I need you for my senior prom, so please come home safe

Please someone, Hear them cry
Please someone, Hear their plead
Please someone, Have a heart
Please someone, Save New Orleans

Dear girl, Please don't cry
You'll see your daddy soon, so please don't say goodbye

Chorus

Dear cat, please understand
We had to leave you, I'm sorry we watched you drown

Those who have a lot give a little,
Those who have little give a lot,
But nature makes the nation distraught

Chorus

Dear sun, please rise
We need to see through these bad times
We won't hold you for nature's crimes

Guitar Picking - Stueym
Everything else - Bjam

[j$]

Save New Orleans by A Small Majority

"God is looking down on all this, and if
They are not doing everything in their power to save people,
They are going to pay the price.
Because every day that we delay, people are dying
And they're dying by the hundreds …"

(Who will save New Orleans?
Pass the buck -- out of luck --
Someone save New Orleans
An open wound and a piss of fate)
"It’s too damn late"

"People are dying. They don't have homes. They don't have jobs.
The city of New Orleans will never be the same"

(New Orleans, New Orleans,
Someone save New Orleans)

"It’s too damn late"

[Egg]

Save New Orleans
by Here, let us phunt you and your friends:


Primary Vocals:

Wanderlust has just set in. I need to leave just to begin, but as long as I remember there has been just one place for me. And even tough I've only known the town for what is now four years, there has been no place for me save New Orleans.

The aftermath was the real disaster for friends of mine whipped by winds of miles and miles of faster forces. Faster forces whipped them out.

I have heard about the house where I might stay, and despite that it's ruined many in its day and many more poor boy it has killed, that dreary, old house is one I still want to rebuild. Tenements in the ninth ward stand as symbols to me, emblematic vestiges that stay in memory to the tenants and the pleasantries that once lived in their walls, to the lives that might have washed away so suddenly this fall. There I can stand my own two feet while lakes surround and winds abound, my hopes will not be slaked, for at night I can find meaning in the jetsam in the street while the day is spent gleaning and keeping up the beat.

I have heard about the house where I might stay, and despite the fact that it's ruined many in its day and many more poor boy it's killed, that dreary, old house is one that I'm still ready to rebuild. There has been no place for me save New Orleans even though I've only known the town for four short years. There's no place that I've a home (that house is something I still want to rebuild) save New Orleans. Even though I've only known the town for four short years, save New Orleans. (that house is still something I'm still wanting to rebuild.) There's no place that I've a home save New Orleans.

Various secondary vocals by Boltoph and Gary Coleman and Egg.

[Wally Harbinger]

save new orleans

Ray Nagin: People are dying. They don't have homes, they don't have jobs. The city of New Orleans will never be the same. People are dying. And they're dying by the hundreds.
George Bush: We're problem solvers.
Shepard Smith: The government said, "You go here and you'll get help," or, "You go in that Superdome, and you'll get help." And they didn't get help.
Bush: We gotta solve problems. We're problem solvers. So I'm going to find out, over time, what went right and what went wrong.
Aaron Broussard: We have been abandoned by our own country. What happened here? Why did it happen?
Anderson Cooper: Dead bodies in the street...
Broussard: Bureaucracy...
Cooper: ...here in Mississippi.
Broussard: ...has committed murder.
Cooper: There was a body...
Broussard: Bureaucracy...
Cooper: ...being eaten by rats.
Broussard: ...has to stand trial.
WWL-AM interviewer: On the verge of anarchy.
Broussard: Bureaucracy...
N.O. Police officer: It's just sad that it took nearly a week...
Broussard: ...has committed murder.
N.O. Police officer: ...for us to get any help.
Broussard: Bureaucracy...
Nagin: It's too doggone late!
Broussard: ...has to stand trial.
Bush: I don't think anybody anticipated a breach of the levees.
Bill Clinton: Our government failed those people in the beginning.
Survivor 1: Two babies have died, a woman died, a man died.
Survivor 2: It's headed straight for us. Run for your lives.
Geraldo Rivera: Get us out of here! Help us! Help us!
Broussard: Save lives.
Nagin: Don't tell me 40,000 people are coming here. They're not here! The city of New Orleans will never be the same.
Barbara Bush: So many of the people in the arenas here, you know, were underpriviledged anyway. This is working very well for them.

[Hoblit]

(God) Save New Orleans - Hoblit

Hurricane Katrina slams into New Orleans
smashing everything with it's 100 mile winds

and even though it vered east
doesn't mean it left in peace
it left impending doom a virutal black water tomb

God save New Orleans from this monstrocity


levee breaks and water flooding through the streets and
swallowing up the city streets and all that it can

And even though you know me
doesn't mean you owe me
this one important favor that I beg and pray for

God save New Orleans from this atrocity


people drowning in their homes and all the looting
reports of rape and violence and all of the shooting

and even though I know you
and I certainly owe you
we plead that you sing, Fuck the queen!

God save New Orleans from this ferocity

[EightLeggedOedipus]

Save New Orleans
By Eight Legged Oedipus
(C) 2005 Pure Greed Records


"Nobody can save poor New Orleans
But you'll save me, Marie"
That's what Grandma said as we all dismissed her prophecy as randomness

Dear Marie
The Big Easy will swell with seas of gasoline
For three whole days we'll wash in waves of hurricanes
And men depraved
Hoping to be saved

Grandma, can you hear the boats?
Grandma, can you feel your toes?
Lucky that this dresser floats
Although we've drifted far from home
I may be only nine years old
But I can do as I am told
Grandma, where'd your gris-gris go?
The dragonflies were right, you know

Dear Marie
You tend to me
Rended from our family
The medicine that lets me breathe
Chew my food and help me eat
And guide me to a dry place please

I'm holding onto what I own
I'm saving this old creole soul
Jambalaya
Zydeco
And the magic only Grandma knows

Dear Marie
The Big Easy has swelled with seas of gasoline
For three whole days we washed in waves of hurricanes
But thanks to you we're saved