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Big Easy (Live in Paris)
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Raphael Saadiq
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Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh Paris, this next song is called "The Big Easy" I wrote this song for the victims of Hurricane Katrina I know you all heard about it New Orleans, right? But in New Orleans, when they mourn, they party and dance And dance in the middle of the street And I wrote this song a couple of years ago But I just got a chance to visit New Orleans before I came to Paris And I had a chance to go to the Ninth Ward, that's where everything happened at Where all the houses are all down, all gone away It's only steps left there, you know, porches and steps, the houses are gone Boards on the wall with numbers on 'em, how many people left dead in the house With the Coast Guard with the troop numbers all over the houses And it gave me this real eerie feeling, it reminded me why I wrote this song in the first place And I walked through the houses, and I talked to the people that were still hanging around You know what? But everybody had a smile on their face So what I wanna do today, what I wanna do tonight in this beautiful place called Paris How do you say "Everybody" in French? Is it, uh, tout le monde? Tout le monde Applaudissez Somebody tell me What's going wrong — there you go I ain't seen my baby In far too long Somebody please tell me What's going wrong They say them levees broke And my baby's gone Listen now It's been a couple of days And real dark nights I miss my only child I ain't seen her since that night She left home about eight And never to return Our body's floatin' Floatin' through that river I gotta know Tell me what's going wrong I ain't seen my baby In far too long Somebody please tell me What's going wrong They say them levees broke And my baby's gone I've been searching all around Day and day and night Somebody please tell me I need to feel light So many souls crying (Crying) How could this be? Every step I take, I can't help But oh Lord, please rescue me Somebody tell me What's going wrong I ain't seen my baby In far too long Somebody please tell me What's going wrong They say them levees broke And my baby's gone Please somebody tell me What's going wrong I ain't seen my baby In far too long Just tell me What's going wrong They say them levees broke And my baby's gone Please somebody tell me Come on I'm taking everybody in the room to New Orleans Let's get on the airplane now Clap your hands, come on Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh Come on Please somebody tell me Come on and tell me Please somebody tell me Come on and tell me Please somebody tell me Come on and tell me Need the whole room to move with me left to right Come on, oh Somebody tell me (Tell me what's going on), oh my God Somebody tell me (Tell me what's going on), oh my God Somebody tell me (Tell me what's going on), oh my God Somebody tell me (Tell me what's going on), oh my (Somebody tell me, tell me) Thank you, good night
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