Back Water Blues-Bessie Smith/The Blue Boys

[ti:Back Water Blues] [ar:Bessie Smith] [al:Empress Of The Blues Volume 2:] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Back Water Blues - Bessie Smith/The Blue Boys [00:04.48]When it rained five days and the sky turned dark as night [00:10.29] [00:13.79]When it rained five days and the sky turned dark as night [00:19.66] [00:23.17]Then trouble's taking place in the lowlands tonight [00:28.79] [00:32.03]I woke up this morning can't even get out of my door [00:37.88] [00:41.06]I woke up this morning can't even get out of my door [00:46.75] [00:50.69]That's enough trouble to make a poor girl wonder [00:54.26]Where she want to go [00:56.01] [00:59.06]They rowed a little boat about five miles across the farm [01:04.88] [01:08.13]They rowed a little boat about five miles across the farm [01:13.95] [01:17.01]I packed all of my clothes throwed them in [01:20.19]And they rowed me along [01:22.82] [01:26.07]When it thundered and lighteninged and the wind began to blow [01:31.38] [01:34.76]When it thundered and lighteninged and the wind began to blow [01:39.97] [01:43.41]There's thousands of people ain't got no place to go [01:48.60] [01:51.91]And I went and stood up on some high old lonesome hill [01:57.94] [02:00.87]And I went and stood up on some high old lonesome hill [02:07.06] [02:09.75]And looked down on the house where I used to live [02:15.44] [02:18.56]Back Water Blues done calls me to pack my things and go [02:24.24] [02:27.43]Back Water Blues done calls me to pack my things and go [02:33.50] [02:36.37]Cause my house fell down and I can't live there no more [02:41.81] [02:45.37]Mmm I can't move no more [02:50.62] [02:54.13]TMmm I can't move no more [02:59.56] [03:02.75]There ain't no place for a poor old girl to go