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Bruce Springsteen took Blind Alfred Reed's "How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live?" from December 1929, wrote some new verses for New Orleans, and dedicated it to "President Bystander" at Jazzfest. Sample:

There's bodies floatin' on Canal & the levee's gone to hell
Martha get me my 16-gauge & some dry shells
Them who's got got out of town
Them who ain't got left to drown
Tell me, how can a poor man stand such times and live?"

Video: is here on YouTube, probably aided by the concert being webcast....

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