Rising High Water Blues-Blind Lemon Jefferson/George Perkins

[ti:Rising High Water Blues] [ar:Blind Lemon Jefferson] [al:Blind Lemon Jefferson Sings The Blues] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.01]Rising High Water Blues - Blind Lemon Jefferson/George Perkins [00:00.02]Written by：Blind Lemon Jefferson [00:00.04] [00:08.05]Backwater rising [00:10.54] [00:11.39]Southern peoples can't make no time [00:14.75] [00:18.14]I said [00:18.60]Backwater rising [00:20.78]Southern peoples can't make no time [00:23.93] [00:27.79]And I can't get no hearing [00:30.49] [00:31.06]From that Memphis girl of mine [00:33.91] [00:37.77]Water in Arkansas [00:40.79]People screaming in Tennessee [00:43.89] [00:46.85]Oh people screaming in Tennessee [00:52.46] [00:55.16]If I don't leave Memphis [00:57.07] [00:57.61]Backwater spill all over poor me [01:00.65] [01:05.22]People since it's raining [01:07.46] [01:08.79]It has been for nights and days [01:11.74] [01:14.05]People since it's raining [01:17.10]Has been for nights and days [01:20.42] [01:23.05]Thousands people stands on the hill [01:26.32]Looking down were they used to stay [01:29.02] [01:33.04]Children stand there screaming mama [01:36.82]We ain't got no home [01:39.12] [01:41.59]Oh mama we ain't got no home [01:46.09] [01:49.51]Papa says to the children [01:51.37] [01:52.52]Backwater left us all alone [01:55.67] [02:00.51]Backwater rising [02:02.71] [02:03.54]Come in my windows and door [02:06.36] [02:09.24]The backwater rising [02:11.57]Come in my windows and door [02:13.61] [02:16.96]I leave with a prayer in my heart [02:18.91] [02:19.55]Backwater won't rise no more