High Water Everywhere Pt1-Charley Patton

[ti:High Water Everywhere Pt1] [ar:Charley Patton] [al:Founder Of The Delta Blues] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]High Water Everywhere Pt1 - Charley Patton [00:03.57]Well backwater done rose [00:04.94] [00:05.63]All around Sumner now [00:06.82] [00:08.07]Drove me down the line [00:10.45] [00:13.51]Backwater done rose at Sumner [00:16.69]Drove poor Charley down the line [00:18.64] [00:22.76]Lord I'll tell the world the water [00:25.57] [00:26.07]Done crept through this town [00:27.94] [00:30.51]Lord the whole round country [00:33.01] [00:33.94]Lord river has overflowed [00:37.32] [00:39.44]Lord the whole round country [00:42.51]Man is overflowed [00:44.38] [00:45.83]You know I can't stay here [00:47.07]I'll go where it's high boy [00:49.26] [00:50.26]I would goto the hilly country [00:52.07] [00:53.07]But they got me barred [00:55.08] [00:57.27]Now look-a here now at Leland [00:59.15] [01:00.46]River was risin' high [01:02.40] [01:05.72]Look-a here boys around Leland tell me [01:08.78]River was raisin' high [01:11.65]Boy it's risin' over there yeah [01:14.02] [01:14.90]I'm gonna move to Greenville [01:18.15]Fore I leave goodbye [01:21.08] [01:22.34]Look-a here the water now Lordy [01:24.78]Levee broke rose most everywhere [01:27.78] [01:31.15]The water at Greenville and Leland [01:34.27]Lord it done rose everywhere [01:35.90] [01:36.84]Boy you can't never stay here [01:38.21]I would go down to Rosedale [01:42.84]But they tell me there's water there [01:45.34] [01:47.65]Now the water now mama [01:49.84] [01:50.72]Done took Charley's town [01:55.71]Well they tell me the water [01:58.65]Done took Charley's town [02:00.72] [02:01.77]Boy I'm goin' to Vicksburg [02:03.34]Well I'm goin' to Vicksburg [02:07.71]For that high of mine [02:09.71] [02:11.90]I am goin' up that water [02:13.65] [02:14.15]Where lands don't never flow [02:16.27] [02:19.53]Well I'm goin' over the hill where [02:21.72]Water oh don't ever flow [02:24.15] [02:25.03]Boy hit Sharkey County [02:26.97]And everything was down in Stovall [02:30.47]But that whole county was leavin' [02:32.03] [02:32.84]Over that Tallahatchie shore Boy [02:36.34]Went to Tallahatchie and got it over there [02:38.53]Lord the water done rushed all over [02:40.78] [02:41.53]Down old Jackson road [02:44.97] [02:46.72]Lord the water done raised [02:48.59] [02:49.47]Over the Jackson road [02:52.09]Boy it starched my clothes [02:55.53]I'm goin' back to the hilly country [02:58.54]Won't be worried no more