[ti:Muddy Water] [ar:Bessie Smith] [al:Warming By The Devils Fire - A Film By Charles Burnett] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Muddy Water - Bessie Smith [00:15.93]Dixie moonlight Swanee shore [00:22.81]Headed homebound just once more [00:29.58]To my Mississippi delta home [00:43.12]Southland has that grand garden spot [00:49.70]Although you believe or not [00:56.49]I hear those breeze a-whispering: [01:02.84]"Come on back to me" [01:09.87]Muddy water 'round my feet [01:16.01]Muddy water in the street [01:22.47]Just God don't shelter [01:29.80]Down on the delta [01:36.51]Muddy water in my shoes [01:42.68]Reeling and rocking to them lowdown blues [01:49.16]They live in ease and comfort down there [01:57.27]I do declare [02:02.18]Been away a year today [02:07.59]To wander and roam [02:14.95]I don't care it's muddy there [02:20.55]But see it is my home [02:27.81]Got my toes turned Dixie way [02:33.87]'Round the delta let me lay [02:40.72]My heart cries out for muddy water