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(bonus track) Dear Rachel Carson (If We Lose New Orleans)

from Lulu and the Broadsides: Sampler by Lulu and the Broadsides

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bonus track, written by Dayna Kurtz - performed by Dayna Kurtz and Robert Maché live from France for webtv.com

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Dear Rachel Carson (If We Lose New Orleans)


Dear Rachel Carson, you were right all along
and our hearts are heavy and weary.
And with all due respect,
I’ve got something to add to your theory (2 bars)
You know how you said we would know we were lost
When there’s finally no birds left to sing
Well, if we lose new Orleans, we’ll lose everything


When I came here - like bein pulled on a string
Every street had a name that I wanted to sing
Tchoupitoulas burgundy dauphine
The saints and the bastards of Louis XlV
If we lose new Orleans We’ll lose everything
If we lose new Orleans we’ll lose everything

Dear Rachel Carson, we can see where it’s headed
We’re half underwater already
The pumps can’t keep up
there’s no profit in fixing the levee (2 bars)
the country’s in trouble and we’re here at the bottom
just circling america’s drain
If we lose new Orleans we lose everything
If we lose new Orleans We’ll lose everything


There’s the mardi gras Indians on st joseph’s night
It’s hard to explain, it’s a dance and a fight
Ooh ya yay won’t bow down they sing
In feathers and beads sacred warrior kings
If we lose new Orleans We’ll lose everything
If we lose new Orleans we’ll lose everything


They don’t care about birds They don’t care about songs
They just care about money Like they have all along
Tchoupitoulas burgundy dauphine
Ooh poo pah doo and my ding a ling
If we lose new Orleans we lose everything
If we lose new Orleans We’ll lose everything

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from Lulu and the Broadsides: Sampler, released April 22, 2019

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Dayna Kurtz New Orleans, Louisiana

Dayna Kurtz is the kind of artist who inspires wild-eyed zealotry among her fans, and there are 3 reasons for it: 1, she's an artist's artist, one whose whiskeyed, determined alto often earns her comparisons with Nina Simone; 2 while Europeans adore her, she's obscenely underappreciated in her own country; and 3, her songs straddle a difficult space between jazz, rock, and folk, & are pure poetry. ... more

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