Kingfish

INTRO:
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VERSE:
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Well there's a hundred-thousand 
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Frenchmen in New Orleans
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  In New Orleans there are 
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Frenchmen everywhere
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  But your house could burn down
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Or your babies could drown
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Wouldn't none of them Frenchmen 
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care


VERSE:
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Everybody gather 'round
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Loosen up your suspenders
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Hunker down on the ground
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I'm a cracker
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You are too
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But don't I take good care of you


PD-C HORUS:
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Who built the highway to Baton 
Rouge?
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Who put up your hospital and built 
your schools?
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Who is it looks after shit-kickers 
like you?
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You know the Kingfish do


PD-C HORUS:
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Who gave a big party down at the 
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Roosevelt Hotel?
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Invited the whole north half of the
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 state down for free
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Everybody in the city had their eyes
 bugging out
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'Cause everybody looked like me


CHORUS:
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Here comes the Kingfish, yeah the 
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Kingfish
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Everybody sing
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Here comes the Kingfish, oh the 
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Kingfish
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Make every man a king


PD-C HORUS:
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Who took on the Standard Oil men 
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and whipped their ass
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Just like he promised he'd do?
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But it ain't no Standard Oil men 
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gonna run this state
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It's gonna be run by folks like
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 me and you


CHORUS:
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Here comes the Kingfish, oh the 
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Kingfish
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Friend of the working man
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Here comes the Kingfish, the 
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Kingfish
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Kingfish gonna save this land


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CHORUS:
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Here comes the Kingfish, oh the 
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Kingfish
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Friend of the working man
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Here comes the Kingfish, oh the 
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Kingfish
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Kingfish gonna save this land


INSTRUMENTAL:
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