Lake Pontchartrain

from All These Ways We've Wandered by Friday In America

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"Lake Pontchartrain"
(Broderick)

Lake Pontchartrain you are not to blame for your beloved city, that lay torn and slain/ when the storms came, they brought the blood and pain, but you are not to blame

Well those raging gales that bore your rains, they brought a torrent tide levee could not restrain/ but through the screaming wind and the blowing rain, I heard an angel sing on Lake Pontchartrain

Well the president came in his big jet plane, afraid to land where that blood had stained/ but when you hear his name don’t you feel his shame, for you are not to blame Lake Pontchartrain

When the Cajun sun rose above Dumaine, to shine a light on what remained, all I could offer was this poor refrain, you are not to blame Lake Pontchartrain, you are not to blame Lake Pontchartrain

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from All These Ways We've Wandered, released May 19, 2012

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FIA is a band that mixes rock, Americana, folk, and hip hop. If Abraham Lincoln was a band he'd be Friday In America.

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