[ti:Backwater Blues] [ar:Lead Belly] [al:101 - The Definitive Leadbelly] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Backwater Blues - Lead Belly [00:02.84]Written by:Smith [00:05.68]When it rains five days and the skies turn dark as night [00:14.55]When it rains five days and the skies turn dark as night [00:24.11]Then trouble's takin' place [00:25.94]In the lowlands at night [00:33.59]I woke up this mornin' can't even get out of my door [00:43.81]I woke up this mornin' can't even get out of my door [00:52.95]There's been enough trouble [00:53.53]To make a poor girl I wonder where she wants to go [01:02.23]Then they rowed a little boat about five miles 'cross the pond [01:10.09]Then they rowed a little boat about five miles 'cross the pond [01:18.94]I packed all my clothes [01:20.21]Throwed them in and they rowed me along [01:27.92]It thunders and lightnin' and the wind begins to blow [01:37.51]It thunders and lightnin' and the wind begins to blow [01:46.07]There's thousands of women [01:47.73]Didn't have no place to go [01:54.58]I went and stood upon some high old lonesome hill [02:04.11]I went and stood upon some high old lonesome hill [02:12.69]Then looked down on the house [02:14.80]Where I used to live [02:21.44]Backwater blues done call me to pack my things and go [02:28.02]Backwater blues done call me to pack my things and go [02:34.81]Cause my house fell down [02:36.40]And I can't live there no more [02:43.90]I can't move no more [02:50.43]I can't move no more [02:54.73]There ain't no place [02:56.33]For a poor old girl to go