Backwater Blues

Backwater Blues - Big Bill Broonzy

It rained five days and the

Clouds turned as dark as night

If it rained five days and the

Clouds turned as dark as night

Lord and trouble taken place

Lord in the lolen that night

I got up one morning poor me

I couldn't get even get out of my door

If I got up one morning poor me

Poor me I couldn't get even get out of my door

Lord that was really enough trouble

To make a poor man wonder

Where in the world to go

Any rowed a little boat all

About five miles across the farm

Yeah they rowed a little boat down

About five miles across the farm

Lord I packed up all of my things

And throwed them in and

They rowed poor old Bill along

Then I went and I stood up on a high

High old lonesome hill

Yes I went and I stood up on a high

High old lonesome hill

Lord and all I could do was look

Down we gonna house where I used to live

Than it thundered and it lightnin'd

Lord and the wind began to blow

Yes it thundered and it lightnin'd

Lord and the wind began to blow

Lord there was thousands and thousands

Of poor people at that time

Didn't have no place to go