In Louisiana, Mississippi + Alabama Kathrina wrought more terror than Osama CNN interviews talking heads On bourbon street rats eat the dead Goin' down hard in the Big Easy
Can't hear excuses politicians make Over death cries as the levees break Now we know what it means to miss New Orleans the 4 horsemen rule, the mardi gras scene Goin' down hard in the Big Easy In the French quarter the trumpet blows Is it Gabriel or Ole Satchmo? Ain't no saints come marchin' into the superdome , a stadium death now calls his own Goin' down hard in the Big Easy
Danny Brumfield and Ronald Madison innocents killed by NOPD guns the ninth ward slaughter drowned in black waters shattered homes missing mothers, sons and daughters Goin' down hard in the Big Easy
In the sweet soul where the blues was born you can hear taps moan from Louie's horn Fats Domino looks down from Blueberry Hill in the devastation he finds no thrill Goin' down hard in the Big Easy