High Water Everywhere, Pt. 1-Charley Patton

[ti:High Water Everywhere, Pt. 1] [ar:Charley Patton] [al:Jack of All Trades] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]High Water Everywhere, Pt. 1 - Charley Patton [00:03.26]Well backwater done rose all around Sumner now [00:06.67] [00:07.75]Drove me down the line [00:10.13] [00:13.12]Backwater done rose at Sumner [00:15.58]Drove poor Charley down the line [00:18.63] [00:22.45]Lord I'll tell the world the water [00:25.02] [00:25.67]Done crept through this town [00:27.51] [00:30.02]Lord the whole round country [00:32.05]Lord river has overflowed [00:34.78]Lord the whole round country [00:41.27] [00:41.77]Man is overflowed [00:43.78] [00:44.34]You know I can't stay here [00:45.80]I'll go where it's high boy [00:47.57] [00:49.19]I would goto the hilly country [00:52.33]But they got me barred [00:54.24] [00:56.60]Now look a here now at Leland [00:59.04] [00:59.70]River was risin' high [01:01.58] [01:04.85]Look a here boys around Leland tell me [01:07.94]River was raisin' high [01:09.91] [01:10.68]Boy it's risin' over there yeah [01:12.27] [01:14.09]I'm gonna move to Greenville [01:16.72] [01:17.24]Fore I leave goodbye [01:19.17] [01:21.40]Look a here the water now lordy [01:23.59]Levee broke rose most everywhere [01:27.00] [01:30.07]The water at Greenville and Leland [01:33.23]Lord it done rose everywhere [01:35.08] [01:35.82]Boy you can't never stay here [01:37.36] [01:39.23]I would go down to Rosedale [01:41.53]But they tell me there's water there [01:43.99] [01:46.30]Now the water now mama [01:48.64] [01:49.34]Done took Charley's town [01:51.13] [01:54.50]Well they tell me the water [01:56.75] [01:57.33]Done took Charley's town [01:59.25] [02:00.43]Boy I'm going to Vicksburg [02:01.94] [02:03.27]Well I'm going to Vicksburg [02:05.72] [02:06.31]For that high of mine [02:08.19] [02:10.34]I am going up that water [02:12.71]Where lands don't never flow [02:14.76] [02:17.97]Well I'm going over the hill where [02:20.10]Water oh don't ever flow [02:22.69] [02:23.35]Boy hit sharkey county and everything was down in Stovall [02:26.34] [02:28.92]But that whole county was leavin' [02:31.24] [02:31.83]Over that Tallahatchie shore boy [02:34.41]Went to Tallahatchie and got it over there [02:37.03]Lord the water done rushed all over [02:39.46]Down old Jackson road [02:41.80] [02:44.84]Lord the water done raised [02:46.90] [02:47.78]Over the Jackson road [02:49.52] [02:50.46]Boy it starched my clothes [02:51.75] [02:53.77]I'm going back to the hilly country [02:56.20] [02:56.70]Won't be worried no more