Saturday, September 24, 2005

Hannah and Her Sisters, Rita & Katrina Watching the Hurricane Rita news footage of water cascading through a New Orleans levee and once again flooding the lower 9th ward, adding insult to Hurricane Katrina's injury, brought to my mind some music.  It wasn't the familiar Randy Newman song "Louisiana 1927" sung by Aaron Neville that the media have been beating to death, but a far older tune with even more appropriate lyrics: I saw her at the seashore with a great big pan There was Hannah, pouring water on a drowning man She's hard-hearted Hannah The vamp of Savannah, GA. 12:12:14 PM    comment []