Lyrics for "Five Days & Five Nights"

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Lyrics for "Five Days & Five Nights"

A politically charged indictment of the government's lack of response during the first five days and nights of the catastrophe in New Orleans.

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Some backstory from Rainey:

On the morning of Monday, August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans at 6:05 am. The first levee broke at 8:15 am, and our nation watched in horror as New Orleans was destroyed, along with the rest of the Gulf Coast. I for one was dumbfounded, shocked, sickened and ultimately enraged as I and the rest of the United States kept vigil for the five days and nights it took for help to come to the people of New Orleans.

When it was reported that George W. Bush continued his vacation and Condolezza Rice, our nation's Secretary of State, was shopping for shoes and seeing Broadway musicals while New Orleans was being destroyed, I discovered I couldn't rest until this song was written.

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Five Days & Five Nights

A graph of some of the timeline from August 27th to September 4th is supplied <here> by the Washington Post.

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Five Days & Five Nights
words and music by Rainey

Did ya hear the good news?
Condi's got some new shoes
She's struttin' in them all over town
Though the water's risin'
No it ain't surprisin'
Cause you'll never keep a good woman down

Georgie plays the guitar
Relaxin' at the ranch, and
Condi keeps on dancin' in those new shoes she found
In fire, flood and famine
Georgie just keeps jammin'
He'll be strummin' while the rest of us drown

My teacher told me Nero
Played while Rome was burnin'
Strummin' lyres was his favorite thing
Now tell me if I'm crazy
But ain't it kinda funny
Now the liar's the one strummin' the strings

There was once a lady
Married to a Frenchman
Marie Antoinette was her name
Her people all were starvin'
While she partied in her new shoes
History keeps soundin' the same

But up out of the ashes watch the people arise
The colors of corruption are revealed to our eyes
And all that once was hidden has been brought to the light
And it only took 5 days and 5 nights

Well you might have heard that Cindy
Tried to call our Georgie
Tried to call him but he never was home
He was much too busy
Bikin' and fly fishin'
And helpin' Halliburton along

So she thought she'd better travel
And visit him in DC
With a hundred thousand more of her friends
And maybe get attention
From Georgie or the nation
And put us on the right road again

But up out of the ashes watch the people arise
The colors of corruption are revealed to our eyes
And all that once was hidden has been brought to the light
And it only took 5 days
Only took 5 days
Only took 5 days and 5 nights

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