Hurricane Katrina - Tribute to the Gulf Coast

This video is a photo montage made by Joel Moore that is set to a song called "Class of '05" that he wrote during the Hurricane Katrina debacle. All photos used in the montage were taken from the public domain. The song is original. The song also feature guest performer Matthew Waer.

Lyrics:

Oh Katrina, please don't blow me down
Oh Katrina, please don't come to town

I got a family of four
and I've seen it all before
I don't need your trouble
comin over to my door

We saw it on the show
when the governor said go
but we had no way to go
cause we're old and weak and poor

So now your stingin' bitin' wind
its a burnin' on my skin
and I lost the grippin' hand
of my surely dead best friend

Well we thought we were OK
until the levee gave away
so now we're wadin' through each day
prayin' a chopper'll come our way

Now the city's all shut down
house parts scattered round
there ain't enough sandbags can be found
to keep the lake from runnin' a ground

So now the sun has said good night
while the looters bring the fright
theives & junkies, rape & blight
lawless judgement homeless fight

Freighters crashin' in from the sea
left for dead neck deep in toxic flood debris
water's still a risin' down on Bourbon St.
world watchin' helpless on the color TV

Thousands stranded wavin' babies rooftops
survivors are hoping they find 'em a good cop
before the skeeters breed the coming death pox
& the August sun bakes & blisters 'em red hot

What will we take away
as a lesson from this day
mans plans will fade away
when nature's course is surely laid

Should we trust in our own might
as the ocean temps they rise
or should we seek and strive and try
to consume less with our lives

It's three days on and we're feelin' spent
thousands of poor ones in their very last minute
but the national guard and the money's all spent
Marine One overhead with an empty President

Where's the water, the food & the rescue men
in the desert over yonder cause a veto pen
set us up for disaster we're spread way too thin
if you really understand Mr. Bush "do something" then

This catastrophic trauma keeps right on unfoldin'
mothers cry in vain dead babies a holdin'
football games commercials keep 'em goin'
economy priority shameless destroyer

Where's the relief for the poor on the street
they're stranded in a war-zone with nothin' to eat
as the bourgoise pigs all clean and discreet
disguise their disgust with their see-through sympathy

The poor city Mayor frustrated is cryin'
while the Feds wait around the helpless are dyin'
interviews and press conference satellite lyin'
& the bullshit's a flowin' from the treasonous scion

This schizophrenic country its a hurtin' and cryin'
the party-line jargon we gotta stop buyin'
if our leaders let us down with their half-ass tryin'
the next thing you know its you and me dyin'

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Katrina
• New
• Orleans
• Folk
• Bush
• Flood
• Drowning
• levee

[jacigirlb]

I don't care how many people sit here and critize this video, blame Katrina on God, blame people being hungry on Bush. STOP. Every single one of those people suffered. All their lives they had ridden out storms. No one knew what Katrina had in store. She was a complete freak of nature. So STOP knockin these people!

-JB

Ocean Springs, MS

[KimVisitor]

The interesting thing about these comments is that they share one thing in common. They all ignore the fact that it wasn't the Hurricane that drowned NO. No one seems to understand that the erosion of coastal wetlands + the failure of a levee system + government inaction/incompetence (on all levels) created a much larger tragedy than the Hurricane itself. The fact that this conversation stays political just shows how OUR government/media has turned the public against itself. It's sad really.

[myneed4peace]

No offense to some people, but the fact that people were given multiple opportunities to get the hell out of dodge, n stayed on their own accord, well.. they shouldnt be pissed at the government that warned n warned them to no end to evacuate.! MS had just as much devastation, but they were intelligent enough to not WAIT on the working people n the Government to HAND them somethin for free. Get a job!

[patrickpitman]

"guys new orleans isnt the only place destroyed...Mississippi had it just as bad"

Actually. Mississippi got it worse. And other parts of Louisiana East and South of NOLA got it worse as well. The levees breaking is what did NOLA so badly.

[theday228]

Saw the lyrics, yes, this is a rather well song.

[hopperz04]

i know but it reached land at night on the 28th

[matt425877775]

the storm hit the next day on the 29th

[hopperz04]

this happend on my bday aug28

[marmillionco]

Anyone interested in coastal restoration efforts should get involved with America's WETLAND: Campaign to Save Coastal Louisiana. The foundation works to raise public awareness of the impact Louisianas wetland loss has on the state, nation and world and to gain support for efforts to conserve and save coastal Louisiana. Check out the video "Washing Away" and support AWF by subscribing to the channel "marmillionco."

[smmcsdancer]

My parents and sisters were alive for Andrew and they told me how bad it was but katrina wow i feel of sorry for them

[sesmar6]

la naturaleza cobrandole al el hombre su indiferencia

[NHSpanthers]

So did 36ft storm surges that blew away my home not just the levees. my house was no where near the levees

[hurricanesforce]

LOVE HURRICANES

[stevothecrackhead]

grow up you fucking racist!!!