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Lament For New Orleans

from Fifty by Dave Sills

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about

My Dad (Mike Sills) wrote most of these lyrics shortly after the Hurricane Katrina tragedy unfolded. I matched an unfinished song that I had kicking around to the lyrics, did a bit of wordsmithing to ensure accuracy (I am a severe weather scientist after all!), and the song was born. I play my grandmother's mandolin on this one - her musical spirit lives on.

lyrics

3. Lament for New Orleans (Mike and Dave Sills) © 2019

There’s something about the end of summer
Warm waters rule the day
And storms are born by name and number
Disaster’s surely on its way

Dark black clouds surround the city
Winds they turn her bright to grey
Pontchartrain and Mississippi
Dikes can’t hold the surge at bay

You’d better get high, the water’s rising
Ten feet now, it’s not surprising
Nowhere to go, everybody’s crying
The blues are back, the jazzman’s sighing
Remember the day the Big Easy blew away

She’s come too far as a city
To have her soul washed away
But songs that sound so picture pretty
Give way to wails of death today

Oh you’d better get high, the water’s rising
Twelve feet now, it’s not surprising
Nowhere to go, everybody’s crying
The blues are back, the jazzman’s sighing
Remember the day the Big Easy blew away

credits

from Fifty, released February 24, 2019
Dave Sills – lead vocal, acoustic guitar, mandolin
Allister Bradley – keys, vocal
Ken Sills – bass, vocal
Adam Skinner – drums, cymbal flourishes
Mike Sills - vocal

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Dave Sills gathered his uber-talented friends & family over the cold Ontario winter to record Fifty - an album of original songs mixing Great Lakes folk, blues-based rock & outlaw country. Making music since he was a kid in the Windsor / Detroit-area town of LaSalle, ON, he's absorbed a wide mix of influences - from The Beatles to Rush & Rheostatics, from Johnny Cash to Blue Rodeo & Neko Case. ... more

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