Big Easy (Live in Paris)

[Intro]

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

Paris, this next song is called "The Big Easy"

I wrote this song for the victims of Hurricane Katrina

I know you all heard about it New Orleans, right?

But in New Orleans, when they mourn, they party and dance

And dance in the middle of the street

And I wrote this song a couple of years ago

But I just got a chance to visit New Orleans before I came to Paris

And I had a chance to go to the Ninth Ward, that's where everything happened at

Where all the houses are all down, all gone away

It's only steps left there, you know, porches and steps, the houses are gone

Boards on the wall with numbers on 'em, how many people left dead in the house

With the Coast Guard with the troop numbers all over the houses

And it gave me this real eerie feeling, it reminded me why I  wrote this song in the first place

And I walked through the houses, and I talked to the people that were still hanging around

You know what? But everybody had a smile on their face

So what I wanna do today, what I wanna do tonight in this beautiful place called Paris

How do you say "Everybody" in French? Is it, uh, tout le monde? Tout le monde

Applaudissez

[Verse 1]

Somebody tell me

What's going wrong — there you go

I ain't seen my baby

In far too long

Somebody please tell me

What's going wrong

They say them levees broke

And my baby's gone

Listen now

It's been a couple of days

And real dark nights

I miss my only child

I ain't seen her since that night

She left home about eight

And never to return

Our body's floatin'

Floatin' through that river

[Chorus]

I gotta know

Tell me what's going wrong

I ain't seen my baby

In far too long

Somebody please tell me

What's going wrong

They say them levees broke

And my baby's gone

[Verse 2]

I've been searching all around

Day and day and night

Somebody please tell me

I need to feel light

So many souls crying (Crying)

How could this be?

Every step I take, I can't help

But oh Lord, please rescue me

[Chorus]

Somebody tell me

What's going wrong

I ain't seen my baby

In far too long

Somebody please tell me

What's going wrong

They say them levees broke

And my baby's gone

Please somebody tell me

What's going wrong

I ain't seen my baby

In far too long

Just tell me

What's going wrong

They say them levees broke

And my baby's gone

[Bridge]

Please somebody tell me

Come on

I'm taking everybody in the room to New Orleans

Let's get on the airplane now

Clap your hands, come on

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

Come on

[Outro]

Please somebody tell me

Come on and tell me

Please somebody tell me

Come on and tell me

Please somebody tell me

Come on and tell me

Need the whole room to move with me left to right

Come on, oh

Somebody tell me (Tell me what's going on), oh my God

Somebody tell me (Tell me what's going on), oh my God

Somebody tell me (Tell me what's going on), oh my God

Somebody tell me (Tell me what's going on), oh my

(Somebody tell me, tell me)

Thank you, good night