The Louisiana Lantern

There’s A Lantern in The Window of A Louisiana Mill There’s A Lantern in The Window, ‘cause All The Water, Spilled Into Basements and Stories of Houses on That Road And People Rushed Up Here, in the Power Overload There’s a Lantern in The Window, of A Louisiana Mill It’s the only Glow out there… Shining from a Muddy Hill It’s Shining down on People, Passing by in Crowded Boats It’s Showing all the Cars and Trucks, Stuck or Afloat… It’s Showing All the Neighbors, Hanging on Their Roofs and Try To Hold and Calm the Kids; Waiting for Helicopter to Come By It Showed Us, Little’ Janie and Her Rag-Doll, Didn’t Make It… Lord Have Mercy… It Showed, Her Mama Couldn’t Take It ! …. Now, The Lantern’s Blinking so Much… Like It Just May Go Out ‘Cause It don’t want to show Another Body, Laying About ! … It Faintly Flickered … the Resumed with All Its Might … Looked at Our Hopeful Faces and Tried to Give Us Some Light There’s A Lantern in The Window, of A Louisiana Mill We’ve got to keep It Lit… and Believe that It Will Show Us The Reason, Why We Must Go On … … like That Louisiana Lantern, In The Window … Burning Strong