Back Water Blues-Bessie Smith

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[00:00.00]Back Water Blues - Bessie Smith
[00:04.46]When it rains five days and the skies turn dark as night
[00:14.08]When it rains five days and the skies turn dark as night
[00:23.84]Then trouble's takin' place in the lowlands at night
[00:32.90]I woke up this mornin' can't even get out of my door
[00:42.02]I woke up this mornin' can't even get out of my door
[00:52.02]There's been enough trouble to make a poor girl wonder where she want to go
[01:00.65]Then they rowed a little boat about five miles 'cross the pond
[01:09.78]Then they rowed a little boat about five miles 'cross the pond
[01:18.84]I packed all my clothes throwed them in and they rowed me along
[01:28.09]When it thunders and lightnin' and when the wind begins to blow
[01:37.15]When it thunders and lightnin' and the wind begins to blow
[01:46.03]There's thousands of people ain't got no place to go
[01:54.59]Then I went and stood upon some high old lonesome hill
[02:03.80]Then I went and stood upon some high old lonesome hill
[02:12.68]Then looked down on the house were I used to live
[02:21.93]Backwater blues done call me to pack my things and go
[02:30.87]Backwater blues done call me to pack my things and go
[02:39.99]'Cause my house fell down and I can't live there no more
[02:49.05]Mmm I can't move no more
[02:58.12]Mmm I can't move no more
[03:07.06]There ain't no place for a poor old girl to go