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Hellicane: Poets Respond to Hurricane Katrina

You took away my memories\r\nYou took away my past\r\nYou took away the old oak trees\r\nYou drown them in your path\r\n\r\nI used to play at Ponchatrain\r\nBuilding castles in the sand\r\nAnd watched the dancers in the street\r\nHolding onto Daddy\'s hand\r\n\r\nBut you took away my childhood\r\nAnd covered it in mud\r\nYou took away my happy days\r\nAnd tainted them with blood\r\n\r\nYou took away my memories\r\nYou washed them from my sight\r\nYou took away my happy dreams\r\nAnd turned them into fright\r\n\r\nGive it all back to me\r\nBuild it like before\r\nMake it like it used to be\r\nSo I can dream some more

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“Katrina,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed November 25, 2024, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/26338.