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Randy Newman

Louisiana 1927

by Randy Newman
Randy Newman

Biography:

Randall Stuart "Randy" Newman (born November 28, 1943) is a singer/songwriter, arranger, composer, and pianist who is notable for his mordant (and often satirical) pop songs and for his many film scores.

Newman is noted for his practice of writing lyrics from the perspective of a character far removed from Newman's own biography. For example, the 1972 song "Sail Away" is written as a slave trader's sales pitch to attract slaves, while the narrator of "Political Science" is a U.

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Randy Newman

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  • It's A Jungle Out There
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  • Yo Soy Tu Amigo Fiel
  • You've Got A Friend In Me
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  • Bad News From Home
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  • Bet No One Ever Hurt This Bad
  • Big And Loud
  • Birmingham
  • Blue Shadows On The Trail
  • Burn On
  • Cant Keep A Good Man Down
  • Christmas In Cape Town
  • Dancing
  • Davy The Fat Boy
  • Dayton Ohio 1903
  • Dixie Flyer
  • Every Man A King
  • Every Time It Rains
  • Falling In Love
  • Feels Like Home
  • Follow The Flag
  • Ghosts
  • Gods Song
  • Gone Dead Train
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  • He Gives Us All His Love
  • I Love La
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  • I Miss You
  • I Think Hes Hiding
  • I Think Its Going To Rain Today
  • I Want You To Hurt Like I Do
  • I Will Go Sailing No More
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  • Im Different
  • In Germany Before The War
  • Its A Jungle Out There
  • Its Money That I Love
  • Its Money That Matters
  • Jolly Coppers On Parade
  • Last Night I Had A Dream
  • Laugh And Be Happy
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  • Lonely At The Top
  • Losing You
  • Louisiana 1927
  • Love Story
  • Ma Belle Evangeline
  • Mama Told Me Not To Come
  • Marie
  • Maybe Im Doing It Wrong
  • Memo To My Son
  • Mr President Have Pity On The Working Man
  • My Country
  • My Little Buttercup
  • My Old Kentucky Home
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  • Old Man
  • Only A Girl
  • Pretty Boy
  • Rednecks
  • Rider In The Rain
  • Rollin
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  • She Chose Me
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  • Something Special
  • Song For The Dead
  • Spies
  • Strange Things
  • Texas Girl At The Funeral Of Her Father
  • The Blues
  • The Girls In My Life Part 1
  • The Great Nations Of Europe
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  • The World Isnt Fair
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Louisiana 1927 - Randy Newman
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Written by: Randy Newman
From: "Good Old Boys" (1974)

Tabbed by: maguri
Tuning: Standard

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CHORDS

e-B-G-D-A-E
C/A 0-1-0-0-0-x
C/B 0-1-0-x-2-x
C/D 0-1-0-0-x-x
C/E 0-1-0-2-x-x
C/G 0-1-0-2-x-3
C(add9) 0-3-0-2-3-x

G/B 3-3-0-0-2-x
G/D 3-0-0-0-x-x
G7/D 1-0-0-0-x-x or
x-0-0-3-5-x

Bm7/F# 2-3-2-4-2-2
B7/F# 2-4-2-4-2-2

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*Em7 LINK
e|----------0-----|
B|3---3--03-0-3-0-|
G|0---0-2-2---2-0-|
D|2---------------|
A|----------------|
E|----------------|

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VERSE
G Bm7 Em7
What has happened down here is the wind has changed [*Em7 LINK]
A7 C/D C/G G C G/D
Clouds rolled in from the north and it starts to rain
G Bm7 Em7
It rained real hard and it rained for a real long time [*Em7 LINK]
A7 C/D G C G/B C C/D
Six feet of water in the streets of Evangeline


VERSE
G Bm7 Em7
The river rose all day the river rose all night [*Em7 LINK]
A7 C/D C/G G C G/D
Some people got lost in the flood some people got away all right
G Bm7 Em7
The river had busted through clear down to Plaquemine [*Em7 LINK]
A7 C/D G C G/B C C/D G ]
Six feet of water in the streets of Evangeline [Loui-- siana]


CHORUS
[ C G/B C C/D ] G Bm7/F# B7/F# Em G7/D
Loui----siana, Loui---siana
C(add9) C/D C/E G/D
They're trying to wash us away, they're trying to wash us away
C C/D G Bm7/F# B7/F# Em G7/D
Loui----siana, Loui---siana
C(add9) C/D C/E G/D C C/B C/A
They're trying to wash us away, they're trying to wash us away


VERSE
G Bm7 Em7
President Coolidge came down in a railroad train [*Em7 LINK]
A7 C/D C/G G C G/D
With a little fat man with a notepad in his hand
G Bm7 Em7
President say: "Little fat man isn't it a shame, [*Em7 LINK]
A7 C/D G C G/B C C/D [ G ]
What the river has done to this poor crackers' land?" [Loui-- siana]


CHORUS (+ coda variation)
[ C G/B C C/D ] G Bm7/F# B7/F# Em G7/D
Loui----siana, Loui---siana
C(add9) C/D C/E G/D
They're trying to wash us away, they're trying to wash us away
C C/D G Bm7/F# B7/F# Em G7/D
Louisiana, Louisiana
C(add9) C/D C/E G/D
They're trying to wash us away, they're trying to wash us away
C G/B A7 C/D C/G G
They're trying to wash us away, they're trying to wash us away




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