She sat and she cried until her eyes were real sore
She ain’t coming back here to live no more
The roof was gone and the house is all flooded
What Katrina did to her was mighty cold blooded.

Trash is everywhere and people are crying
Over in the next house someone is dying
Sad, sad looks from our desperate faces
There is total destruction in so many places.


Twenty five soldiers met us down in this city
The lake where they fish, it smells really sh***ty
Everywhere you look, you see a news crew
Wanting to know about me and about you

His seventeen foot bass boat was just left behind
The price he paid for for it just blows my mind
He ain’t got nothing, not one blade of green grass
And he says “This sorry city can just kiss my a**”

“They can have this house” a woman clearly said
“My life is all ruined, my life is all dead”
She sat and she cried until her eyes were real sore
She ain’t coming back here to live no more.

Keys won’t work because my door is swelled up
Soldiers kicked it in and found her dead pup
She curses and she swears at the unforgiving mold
Everything has been ruined, not even a picture to hold.

“We ain’t got nothing; no where else I can go”
“I was evacuated three times but the bus was real slow”
They sent her to Texas to the Alamo dome
But she returned back to find out she had no more home.

“Bathrooms don’t work, got no lights and no heat”
“Maggots are all over, got no food I can eat”
“My clothing is all ruined, it got my shoes too”
“There is no picture on the wall of me and of you”

The house is ruined and the insurance just won’t pay
Tell me ! “Just where is my own brighter day?”
Yes, I thank you Lord for my health and my life
But I’m headed somewhere else without this toil and strife!

“This stuff happens in Florida five times each year
This crazy stuff just can’t be happening right here!!!
This stuff happens to others, doesn’t happen to us
I am so tired of riding on a hot slow poke bus”

Water up to the roof has done flooded her good car
She knows it won’t start or even run very far
So she’s leaving right now driving off with her son
The family days in New Orleans are now over and done.

They are headed for a new life somewhere in Tennessee
Help and prayers for others is now her solemn plea
She sat and she cried until her eyes were real sore
She ain’t coming back to New Orleans to live no more.