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Song Parodies -> "City of the Rising Water"
Original Song Title:
"House of the Rising Sun"
(MP3)Original Performer:
The Animals
Parody Song Title:
"City of the Rising Water"
Parody Written by:
SNSANTY
The Lyrics
Please send your thoughts and prayers for the victims of Hurricane Katrina!
There is the city of New Or-leans
Where Mardi Gras was so much fun
But now it's 80% under the sea
Too bad, Katrina's won
Marie Leveaux rise up and help
Have the graveyards washed away?
Will the Garden District and Bourbon Street
Ever see another day?
The only thing New Orleans needs
Is our country to try to pay
Send our soldiers home from Iraq
It's our own we need to save
Oh God, please help the victims
Death and devistation, all is gone
Most have lived in poverty
The Superdome won't hold on
The levees are spilling into the town
The waters are everywhere
It's all just gonna float away
The Big Easy won't be there
There is a city of New Or-leans
By the Mississippi and Ponchatrain
That now is in rubble and dirty water
Thanks to the ultimate hurricane
Where Mardi Gras was so much fun
But now it's 80% under the sea
Too bad, Katrina's won
Marie Leveaux rise up and help
Have the graveyards washed away?
Will the Garden District and Bourbon Street
Ever see another day?
The only thing New Orleans needs
Is our country to try to pay
Send our soldiers home from Iraq
It's our own we need to save
Oh God, please help the victims
Death and devistation, all is gone
Most have lived in poverty
The Superdome won't hold on
The levees are spilling into the town
The waters are everywhere
It's all just gonna float away
The Big Easy won't be there
There is a city of New Or-leans
By the Mississippi and Ponchatrain
That now is in rubble and dirty water
Thanks to the ultimate hurricane
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Now New Orleans really needs some saints to go marching in. But there's no dry land for them to march onto. We've had some cities hit by earthquakes, some were devastated (in the pre-concrete era) by huge fires, some are in long decline from "white flight," and some just decayed from governmental neglect. But we've never actually had a major city die, and I don't know if New Orleans can be saved. If terrorists had struck, they might not have done worse. A thousand years from now, if the human race and the U.S.A. have survived, New Orleans might be a mythical place like Atlantis or Camelot, with Louis Armstrong as King Arthur, the Mannings as the Knights of the Round Table, Pete Maravich as Lancelot and Anne Rice as Merlin.
Looks like the saints are gonna have to row some boats ashore, if I may be forgiven for mixing musical methaphors. Mike - New Orleans may end up being an archaelogical site, like Troy, Cahokia or Tenochtitlan, while future legends telling about their equivalent of Agamemnon or Quetzelcoatl (or however it's spelled) get tossed around. SNSANTY - "how funny" gets replaced by "how poignant".
could not possibly said it better maybe not anywhere nearly as well 5's
I got profoundly misty-eyed -- that I'm giving a dollar a day to those victims. You're right guys, the city would appreiciate the saints (including Our Lady of Prompt Succor, their archdiocese's patroness) go marching in for them. Very moving.
I grew up near New Orleans and now live in Baton Rouge. I keep thinking what's going on is just a nightmare that I'll wake up from anytime now. I'm tempted to write a New Orleans version of Miami 2017 (Seen the Lights Go Out On Braodway).
Good job.
This is just so apt! 5s!
Would have been pretty good if you had left out the foolish comment about Iraq. Politics (especially wrong-headed liberalism/pacificism) has no place in this tragic story of New Orleans. I hope that the city will be totally demolished and rebuilt on higher ground, up the river. How stupid it would be to rebuild in the current spot, only to be wrecked by a future hurricane! Our Lady of Prompt Succor, pray for us and all the victims.
The foolish comments about Iraq have been coming out of the White House. It's hard to see anything good coming out of this massive disaster, but at least it got Georgie to cut his vacation short. Y'know, it was funny when Johnny Carson used to say, "Ronald Reagan spends more time in California than I do." But, as we've seen on "The West Wing," we need the President to do his job. Even if he's not really the President.
Thanks for the comments. We really do need to take care of OUR OWN especially in situations like this. Looks like New Orleans is gonna be a ghost town. My friend has children in South Mississippi who have lost everything. We really need to help these folks out!
The comments about Iraq are dead on - there was no reason to invade Iraq, and plenty of reasons to have the military aid storm ravaged areas. The president, once again, is clueless.
It was all the fault of George "Dubya" Bush: "No One Can Say they Didn't See it Coming" By Sidney Blumenthal In 2001, FEMA warned that a hurricane striking New Orleans was one of the three most likely disasters in the U.S. But the Bush administration cut New Orleans flood control funding by 44 percent to pay for the Iraq war . . .
Was thinking of doing similar to this OS - but no need - you have done better than I probably would from across the pond. This should be a wake up call to Bush re the environment issues he chooses not to face also.
If this was Crawford, Texas, these people would be out of there. Because they are poor and black, the Bush administration doesn't seem to care. This is a disgrace. The Dubyas seem to be more concerned with looting than getting people out of New Orleans and attending to the sick and injured. This is grounds for impeachment not consensual sex.
you've got a germ of a good parody in there, but I think it needs a lot of work. as for N'awlins since most of the discussion seems to be on that topic not the lyrics...I figure we ought to turn it into something like colonial Williamsburg. Just rebuild some (duh, somewhere above sea level)of the French Quarter as a historical district and let the Mississippi rebuild the delta
Pray for the victims, especially Harvey Jackson. He lost his wife (Tonette) by losing hold of her. (She told him to let go of her and she wanted him to take care of the kids and grandkids.) With his house halved, he is displaced. He told the reporter his harrowing yet doleful story of how he became bereft of his spouse and his house, and they both wept bitterly. HJ NEEDS SOME GRIEF SUPPORT AS OF NOW! HELP THE VICTIMS TOO!!!
As a songwriter myself (although unknown as yet) I appreciate the amount of work that goes into a song. These lyrics are very clever, witty and apt. Well done! But we in the UK are very sad that the area was devastated by Katrina - our deepest condolences to all concerned. Good luck with rebuilding!
I'm such a fooking moron. And I don't really give a shit about flood victims, as long as I can bash Bush with them.
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