Levon Helm Kingfish lyrics

Well, there's a hundred thousand Frenchmen in New Orleans
In New Orleans there are Frenchmen everywhere
But your house could burn down or your babies could drown
Wouldn't none of them Frenchmen care

Everybody gather 'round
Loosen up your suspenders, hunker down on the ground
I'm a cracker and you are too
But don't I take good care of you?

Who built the highway to Baton Rouge?
Who put up your hospital and built your schools?
Who really looks after shit kickers like you?
You know the kingfish do

Who throwed a big party down at the Roosevelt Hotel?
Invited the whole north half of the state down for free
Everybody in the city had their eyes bugging out
'Cause everybody looked like me

Here come the kingfish, yeah the kingfish

Everybody sing
Here come the kingfish, oh the kingfish
Make every man a king

Who took on the Standard Oil men and whipped their ass
Just like he promised he'd do?
But ain't no Standard Oil men gonna run this state
It's gonna be run by folks like me and you

Here come the kingfish, oh the kingfish
Friend of the working man
Here come the kingfish, the kingfish
Kingfish gonna change this land

Here come the kingfish, oh the kingfish
Friend of the working man
Here come the kingfish, oh the kingfish
Kingfish gonna change this land