U2 & Green Day - The Saints Are Coming (Live)

Live Version(3:27)
Rhapsody Music Service(2006)
The Saints are Coming Single(2006)
Studio Version(3:22)
Written By The Skids
Performed By U2 & Green Day...   more Live Version(3:27)
Rhapsody Music Service(2006)
The Saints are Coming Single(2006)
Studio Version(3:22)
Written By The Skids
Performed By U2 & Green Day Live 2006-09-27

The song's lyrics about storms and drowning came back to light after the events of Hurricane Katrina. In September 2006, it was announced that Green Day and U2 were to record a cover version of the song for charitable purposes.
To coincide with the U2 and Green Day recording of the song, both bands performed it live during the Monday Night Football Pregame show of the New Orleans Saints versus Atlanta Falcons game on September 25, 2006. This was the first game in the Louisiana Superdome since it was heavily damaged by Hurricane Katrina in August 2005. The live performance of the song was later sold online to benefit Music Rising, a charity created by U2's The Edge in order to bring instruments and music programs back to New Orleans.
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There is a house in New Orleans
They call the Superdome
It's been the ruin
Of many a poor boy
And God I know I'm one

I cried to my daddy on the telephone, how long now?
Until the clouds unroll and you come home, the line went
But the shadows still remain since your descent, your descent

I cried to my daddy on the telephone How long now?
Until the clouds unroll and you come home the line went
But the shadows still remain since your descent, your descent yeah, yeah

The saints are coming
The saints are coming
I say no matter how I try
I realize there's no reply

The saints are coming
The saints are coming
I say no matter how I try
I realize there's no reply

[Backing Ooohs]
New birth, rebirth
Trombone Shorty

Living like birds in magnolia trees
A child on a rooftop
A mother on her knees
Her sign reads
Please, I am an American

Drowning sorrow floods the deepest grief, how long now
Until a weather change condemns belief, how long now
When the night watchman lets in the thief, what's wrong now

The saints are coming
The saints are coming
I say no matter how I try
I realize there's no reply

The saints are coming
The saints are coming
I say no matter how I try
I realize there's no reply
I say no matter how I try
I realize there's no reply
I say no matter how I try
I realize there's no reply
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Grace

Grace sung by U2 with images to reflect on the idea that changed the world.

Frankie and Johnny's Furniture: See the Special Man

Classic commercial for Frankie and Johnny's Furniture in New Orleans, featuring the original "special man."


NOTE: This commercial can be found on th...   more Classic commercial for Frankie and Johnny's Furniture in New Orleans, featuring the original "special man."


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Nativity Dance

This video was filmed at Highland Park Presbyterian Church on Dec. 13th, 2009 as a part of our Club Christmas Youth Service.

Blue Xmas (To Whom It May Concern)

Blue Xmas

Merry Christmas
I hope you have a white one, but for me it's blue
Blue Christmas, that's the way you see it when you're feeling blue
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Merry Christmas
I hope you have a white one, but for me it's blue
Blue Christmas, that's the way you see it when you're feeling blue
Blue Xmas, when you're blue at Christmastime
you see right through,
All the waste, all the sham, all the haste
and plain old bad taste

Sidewalk Santy Clauses are much, much, much too thin
They're wearing fancy rented costumes, false beards and big fat phony grins
And nearly everybody's standing round holding out their empty hand or tin cup
Gimme gimme gimme gimme, gimme gimme gimme
Fill my stocking up
All the way up
It's a time when the greedy give a dime to the needy
Blue Christmas, all the paper, tinsel and the fal-de-ral
Blue Xmas, people trading gifts that matter not at all
What I call
Fal-de-ral
Bitter gall.......Fal-de-ral

Lots of hungry, homeless children in your own backyards
While you're very, very busy addressing
Twenty zillion Christmas cards
Now, Yuletide is the season to receive and oh, to give and ahh, to share
But all you December do-gooders rush around and rant and rave and loudly blare
Merry Christmas
I hope yours is a bright one, but for me it bleeds   less