Key: F
Introduction:
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30 miles out in the Gulf Stream I can hear those south winds moan
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Bridges are lookin lower, shrimp boats hurryin' home
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The old man down in the quarter slowly turns to me
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Took another drink of whiskey and he looked at me and said
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I was born on the rain of the Ponchatrain beneath that Louisiana Moon
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Don't mind the strain of the hurricane, she comes 'round every June
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And high black water, she's the devils daughter, she's hard and she's cold, and she's mean
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Nobody's taught her that it takes a lot of water to wash away New Orleans
A man come down from Chicago, gonna set that levy right