New Orleans

Rained all night
rained all day
rain washed my whole
damn world away

Down came the levee
then came the flood
streets got buried
in six feet of mud

Some prayed for rescue
some prayed in vain
some say they never
gonna pray again

Some of us are black
some of us white
don't seem like nobody
came out all right

What's old New Orleans
gonna do now?
some say she'll rise again
but don't say how