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Rick posted a good one by Randy Newman called Louisiana 1927.
His post here:
http://www.geekking.com/?p=194
Or just read the lyrics here:
http://www.lyricsdepot.com/randy_newman/louisiana-1927.html

Yall are all some bunch of fuckin assholes because yall dont even know what we are goin through here in Louisiana. So yall have no room to talk because if something like this would happen to you, yall wouldnt know what to do. So unless you people know what we are goin through down here yall need to shut the fuck up

Burton Garr wrote and recorded an original song recently about Hurricane Katrina. It is very good. Has got some national radio play. Check it out. Link: http://www.kamara..org/burton

We need humor to get through dark times, and we need hope. I humbly submit this song of hope to all who are suffering from Katrina.

THE RISING SUN

There is no house in New Orleans
There is no rising sun
Hurricane ruined this easy scene
Oh, Lord, see what she’s done

Oh, Mother, grab hold of your child
Can’t ride, gonna have to run
Mother Nature is running wild
Gave each wild man a gun

Oh, Father, guard your family
You can’t trust anyone
Fight later, now it’s time to flee
Brighter days are yet to come

There’ll be a house in New Orleans
There’ll be a rising sun
Proud people always find the means
To do what must be done

There’ll be a house in New Orleans
There’ll be a rising sun
The job is big, it’s not easy
To undo what’s been done

There’ll be a house in New Orleans
Remember nine eleven
Turn from the mud and misery
And see the rising sun
And see the rising sun

(Turn toward the risen Son)

Copyright © 2005 Lex Zaleta

You can hear a rough acoustic demo of “The Rising Sun” at

http://www.mixposure..com/song.php?songid=15725

Grace and peace,

Lex

I wrote a song called “The Ghost of New Orleans” for a Stotm Aid benefit concert that we did at our church last week. People liked so much that they encouraged me to post it on the web. I have very good friends on the Goulf Coast, but wrote this song for the homeless people who I’m afraid might be forgotten over time. You can down load it for free/donation at http://www.dreammakersmp3.com

correction:
the kanye west song is titled: “hell no we aint alright.”

You guys think you’ve heard good songs for the Katrina victims, I got a song that’ll top anything out there. If you can try and find the cd by the group “CHIPS” and if you can’t find it let me know. I have CD’s for sale right now. Hit me up at lyndon@jazz.la

instead of making fun of the tragedy that happened on the gulf coast. one artist i know by the name of Sr1 wrote a song called”we will rebuild” praising the courage of the people who survived , suffered, and are determined to restore their land and lives.not to mention in praise of the heroes who rescued the inhabitants. if someone wants to give a listen to the song i’ll send them a copy. cynism and finding fault with the situation isn’t helping those people solve their immediate and long term problems.

RIP, Johnny B. Nick Keefe, Fall 2005

(intro instrumental verse from Chuck Berry’s Johnny B Goode . In G)

Johnny B was never found presumed drowned G C
Gone as the waters rose G
So his Mama never saw his name in lights – G C
That’s the way it goes (D, D, C, C) D

From the lobbies and the corridors, from distant shores G C
From the swamps and the beltway ‘round DC G
They saw the bodies of the people of New Orleans G C
Drowned and swept out to sea! D (C Em D)
G And the waters rose, and the C storms D in G creased
And the C wind cried “Mary” and It C never ceased
Down the corridors, slouched what rough beast?
And the wind cried “Mary” and it never ceased.

Instrumental on Chorus

He used to play his guitar just like a ringin’ a bell, G
Re-ragged in old blue jeans C
In a little log cabin made of earth and wood G
Among the evergreens (C, C) C

Mama saw Johnny swept away G
Across the railroad track C
Johnny B was gone – they found his guitar G
In a soggy – gunny – sa ————-ck! D (C, Em, D)
And the waters rose, and the storms increased
And the wind screamed “Mary” and it never ceased
Down the corridors, slouched what rough beast?
And the wind screamed “Mary” and it never ceased.

Instrumental on Chorus
(slower)He’s gone, nothin’s gonna bring him back (4X)

thanx: Chuck (Johnny B Goode), Jerry ( “He’s gone”), Jimi (“Mary”), Leadbelly (“When the women all heard that Ella Speed was dead, They went on home and they re-ragged in red…”) WB (“What rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?”)

i heard a few songs about hurricane katrina that my friend downloaded and they were hilarious. something about the remake of the battle of new orleans, and a remake of grandma got ran overed by a raindeer.

TRYING AGAIN. Song link didn’t print in the above posting. Again:

http://polititunes-katrina.cf.huffingtonpost.com

With any luck, this time it will post.

T H E K A T R I N A S O N G was inspired by first response experience in Waveland/Bay St Louis, Mississippi.
First Katrina brought destruction – then she brought LOVE – the people that heard the call hit the road – all ages -from all places. Enjoy – Share.
Video with photos in production as we “speak”. Recorded in LA [lower Alabama that is!!]

http://www.pioneerindex.com/thekatrinasong

Listen – Download – Share – Lyrics – Chords

High, the songs are okay, but at least SOME OF THE SONGS have at least some sights of hope in the songs, I mean if I were a victim, I’d only want positive songs to my soundtrack to what I have to go through.

regardless of how you feel about hardcore hip-hop, Juvenile’s “Get Ya Hustle On” and the accompanying video (featuring three kids in Bush, Cheney and Nagin masks dropping water bottle-parachutes onto the post-flood wasteland of the 9th Ward) is probably the most prescient and compelling musical reaction so far to the terrible storm and its more horrific aftermath.

premise: kanye was right. the government – both federal and local (“your mayor ain’t your friend he’s the enemy”) has abandoned you and your city, so to get back on your feet you better start cook up some rocks and start dealing. choice lines:

“errbody need a check from FEMA/so he can go and score him some cocaina/and i ain’t gotta ball in the Beemer/man i’m tryin to live, i lost it all in Katrina”

true story – Juve was just one of far too many whose home was destroyed in the storm. trap-rap may be the trend but here it’s not about the life of luxury, it’s a matter of survival when legitimate commerce has abandoned him and his city.

“we starving, we living like Haiti without no government/niggaz killin niggaz and them bitches is lovin it/fuck Fox News i don’t listen to yall ass/couldn’t get a nigga off the roof with a star pass”

If the government and its enablers can’t help the people then the people have no reason to heed the word of either entity. “Get Ya Hustle On” is not the expected plea for the powers that be to take notice of the city in need, but for the city to take care of itself – by any means necessary – in defiance of the callous indifference of white America.

it’s a damn good beat too.

does anyone know where to get The Great USA PPT presentation with House of the Rising Sun in the background? I saw it once and would love to have it. thanks!

correction visit
http://www.arkade.com/Mr_Beederboppers_Airtight_records
to hear “Katrina 911.”

I submitted “The Rising Sun” here in September of 2005. Since that time, the links have gone bad. Here are working links to two versions of “The Rising Sun”:

from THE PLEASURES THAT LAST by BRET ALEXANDER — http://soundclick.com/share?songid=5400515

from TAKE A GOOD LOOK — http://soundclick.com/share?songid=2866859

Thousands of Katrina victims still need our help, our prayers, and our songs of hope.

Try I’ll Meet You (Song for Hurricane Katrina) off of William H. Stapley and the Middle Kingdom Band downloadable on-line.

I wrote one for a little stint I did down there as an insurance adjuster. To the tune of Folsom Prison Blues:

I’m goin’ down to Nawlins
Gonna find a job
I became an adjuster
Now I’m gon’ get shot
Well I hate it down in N’awlins
They all want me to die
When I see more claims a comin’
I hang my head and cry.

When I left Oklahoma
My poppa told me son
You’re going down to New Orleans you’re gonna need a gun,
But I packed my bags and suitcase,
Headed on the road.
If they kill me on the bayou
Won’t nobody know.

Well if they’d free from this ‘djustin’,
if that stack of claims weren’t mine,
I’d probably go back home and I’d work at the 5 and dime.
Far from swamps and bayous
That’s where I want to stay…
and I’d drop that adjustin’ workload
out on Ponchartrain.

recently posted video of public domain protest folk song about Hurricane Katrina from 2005, “Destroyed By A Rising Flood,” at following link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrpbF-0Xvk0

“There was a town called New Orleans
Destroyed by a rising flood
And it’s been the ruin of many a poor boy
And lord, I know, I’m one.

“My mother lived near a levee
Where a small crack could be seen
They gambled and did not repair it
Down in New Orleans.

“My father was a laborer
Helped build the tall buildings
On top of what were once wetlands
That protected New Orleans.

“We heard about Katrina
And were told to evacuate
But if you can’t afford a car
There is no way to escape.

“The global warming hurricane
It overflowed the lake
A flood broke through the levee
And many people sank.

“Go tell my baby sister
`Food and water are on the way’
While she’s abandoned outside a stadium
For over three nights and days.

“Both feet in the water
Above us the hot sun
But I’ll be back in New Orleans
Before my life is done.”
And it’s been the ruin of many a poor