good people, by now you have heard / what in New Orleans has gone down
an American city has overturned / & there many good people have drowned
just imagine, good people, the ruin / how terrible is the wrath of the Lord
with the water from the lake down to Bourbon /from Canal to the Lower Ninth Ward
two lovers, they are peacefully lying / in a peace not a soul could disturb
they cried out "my dear god, we are dying" /but the president seems not to have heard
just imagine, good people, the ruin / of the ones that we choose to ignore
with the water from the lake down to Bourbon / from Canal to the Lower Ninth Ward
an American city has overturned / & there many good people have drowned
just imagine, good people, the ruin / how terrible is the wrath of the Lord
with the water from the lake down to Bourbon /from Canal to the Lower Ninth Ward
two lovers, they are peacefully lying / in a peace not a soul could disturb
they cried out "my dear god, we are dying" /but the president seems not to have heard
just imagine, good people, the ruin / of the ones that we choose to ignore
with the water from the lake down to Bourbon / from Canal to the Lower Ninth Ward