History repeats itself (re current events)

by Leolaia 16 Replies latest social current

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  heathen

  I love that zeppelin song ..... did they write that or was it a redo ?
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  blondie

  I heard that account on the radio as we drove home. I heard this song on Garrison Keillor's show last night.

  Louisiana 1927

  Artist: Randy Newman
  Album: Good Old Boys

  What has happened down here is the wind have changed
  Clouds roll in from the north and it started to rain
  Rained real hard and rained for a real long time
  Six feet of water in the streets of Evangeline
  
  The river rose all day
  The river rose all night
  Some people got lost in the flood
  Some people got away alright
  The river have busted through cleard down to Plaquemines
  Six feet of water in the streets of Evangelne

  CHORUS
  Louisiana, Louisiana
  They're tyrin' to wash us away
  They're tryin' to wash us away
  Louisiana, Louisiana
  They're tryin' to wash us away
  They're tryin' to wash us away
  
  President Coolidge came down in a railroad train
  With a little fat man with a note-pad in his hand
  The President say, "Little fat man isn't it a shame what the river has
  done
  To this poor crackers land."
  
  CHORUS
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  Leolaia

  heathen....Zep covered it (and rearranged it musically), as it was originally written by Memphis Minnie. I was just listening to it today while driving (as a passenger ;)) in the Sacramento delta, on top of the levees on both sides of the river. Still have it ringing in my head...
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  bisous

  very interesting and thought provoking, thanks for sharing
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  willyloman
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  willyloman

  before some well meaning dub tries to tell me that this is an unprecedented event and sure sign of the time of the end ... We can point out that it happened less than 80 years ago.

  Sure, but, see, the 1927 flood was caused by Satan to mask the fact that the end came in 1925, just as Rutherford said it would. Are you all blind?

  Willyloman (of the It All Happened Invisibly, Don't You Know class)
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  anewme

  New Led Zep fan here!
  Thankyou for the great research....much food for thought.
  Yeah, like I think I wont be moving to the Mississippi Delta too soon!
  
  If history is repeating itself again, then maybe the black vote will make a big difference in the next election?