I Think It's Going To Rain Today

Just now, this UB40 cover of a Randy Newman song came up on iTunes, as I was filling out a donation at the Red Cross site. A bit synchronicitous.

Newman has an even more appropriate song: “Louisiana 1927”

What has happened down here is the wind have changed
Clouds roll in from the north and it started to rain
Rained real hard and rained for a real long time
Six feet of water in the streets of Evangeline

The river rose all day
The river rose all night
Some people got lost in the flood
Some people got away alright
The river have busted through cleard down to Plaquemines
Six feet of water in the streets of Evangeline

CHORUS
Louisiana, Louisiana
They're tyrin' to wash us away
They're tryin' to wash us away
Louisiana, Louisiana
They're tryin' to wash us away
They're tryin' to wash us away

President Coolidge came down in a railroad train
With a little fat man with a note-pad in his hand
The President say, “Little fat man isn't it a shame what the river has done
To this poor crackers land.”

Louisiana, Louisiana
They're tyrin' to wash us away
They're tryin' to wash us away
Louisiana, Louisiana
They're tryin' to wash us away
They're tryin' to wash us away


Since the National Guard, and all the amphibian vehicles that might have been beneficial at this point have been sent to Iraq, the Red Cross is all that the residents of Louisiana have left.

Go to the Red Cross site and give 'em a little love. You got a house; you got a working toilet and fresh water. Help somebody who doesn't.