There was a house in New Orleans
Destroyed by rising floods
It stands for the ruin of many a poor boy
And God, we are that one.

Someone saw this coming
Off the Gulf Coast for days
Chief on the golf course at the ranch
As New Orleans was razed.

The weak and busted levees
Evacuation of whites
Young girls raped in the Astrodome
40 days and 40 nights.

Amazing Grace, his mother’s fate
She called for help on the phone
Rescue workers three days late
She’d already died alone

You don’t stick up for the poor man
The poor man’s swept away
Who will enlist to stick up for you
When you’re being swept up someday?

There was a house in New Orleans
Destroyed by rising floods
It stands for the ruin of many a poor boy
And God, we are that one.