[Verse 1]
Well, there's a hundred thousand Frenchmen in New Orleans
In New Orleans there are Frenchmen everywhere
But your house could burn down
Or your babies could drown
Wouldn't none of them Frenchmen care

Everybody, gather 'round
Loosen up your suspenders, hunker down on the ground
I'm a cracker, and you are, too
But don't I take good care of you?

[Chorus]
Who built the highway to Baton Rouge?
Who put up your hospital and built your schools?
Who really looks after shit-kickers like you?
You know the Kingfish do

[Verse 2]
Who threw the big party down at the Roosevelt Hotel?
Invited the whole north half of the state down for free
The people Everybody in the city had their eyes bugging out
'Cause everybody looked just like me

[Chorus]
Here come the Kingfish, yeah, the Kingfish
Everybody sing
Here comes the Kingfish, oh, the Kingfish
Make every man a king
[Verse 3]
Who took on the Standard Oil men and whipped their ass
Just like he promised he'd do?
Well, there ain't no Standard Oil men gonna run this state
It's gonna be run by folks like me and you

[Chorus]
Here come the Kingfish, oh, the Kingfish
Friend of the working man
Here come the Kingfish, the Kingfish
Kingfish gonna save this land

[Instrumental Break]

[Chorus]
Here come the Kingfish, oh, the Kingfish
Friend of the working man
Here come the Kingfish, oh-ho, the Kingfish
Kingfish gonna save this land