Folk Blues: Bessie Smith (Backwater Blues)

Folk Blues: Bessie Smith (Backwater Blues) - Big Bill Broonzy

It rained five days

And the clouds turned as dark as night

It rained five days

And the clouds turned as dark as night

Lord that was trouble take place

Now and no lander of mine

I got up one morning

Poor me I couldn't even get out my door

Yes I got up one morning

Poor me I couldn't even get out my door

Lord that was really enough trouble

To make a poor man wonder

Where in the world to go

Then I went and I stood up on a high

High old lone some hill

Now I went and I stood up on a high

High old lone some hill

Lord and all I could do was look down

On the house baby where I used to live

Now it thundered and it lightnin'd

Lord and the wind wind began to blow

Now it thundered and it lightnin'd

Lord and the wind wind began to blow

Lord that time and thousands of my poor people

Didn't have no place to go