Back Water Blues

Back Water Blues - Kitty Waters

When it rains five days and the skies turn dark as night

When it rains five days and the skies turn dark as night

Then trouble's taking place in the lowlands at night

I woke up this morning can't even get out of my door

I woke up this morning can't even get out of my door

There's been enough trouble to make a poor girl

Wonder where she wants to go

It thunders and lightning

And the wind begins to blow

It thunders and lightning

And the wind begins to blow

There's thousands of people ain't got no place to go

Then I went and stood

Upon high old lonesome hill

Then I went and stood

Upon high old lonesome hill

Then looked down on my house

Where I used to live

Backwater blues done call me to pack my things and go

Backwater blues done call me to pack my things and go

Because my house fell down

And I can't live there no more

Mmm I can't move no more

Mmm I can't move no more

There ain't no place for a poor old girl to go