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The Greats had their day

Charlie, Bird and Satchmo

And also their stay

In the Land of the Blues

Now a people gone

From a vibrant cool city

Busted by an uncorked Katrina

From the mighty Mississippi

To alluring Alabama

Katrina came and left

Still asmoking and aburning

And help so inept

Came to a city no more

To close the barn door

After the storm left



Oh America! Land of the free

But a land of silent conspiracy

Heedless of world opinion

And the world looks on

Now US Shows spew the scorn



But they came before in Petra

Pompeii and Ubar in Saudi Arabia

Wiping out cities with their rage

Like Corinth, Angkor Wat and Carthage

And now  Lusty New Orleans

Burning Mississippi

And awesome Alabama



Now the plight of the poor folks

Fuelling talk shows with sour jokes

But New Orleans will for sure

Remember when Katrina came a calling

And Uncle Sam didn’t do his bidding

But blamed it all on Mother Nature