High Water Everywhere Pt.2-Charley Patton

[ti:High Water Everywhere, Part 2] [ar:Charley Patton] [al:The Classic Years] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]High Water Everywhere Pt.2 - Charley Patton [00:02.38]Backwater at Blytheville backed up all around [00:09.52] [00:14.93]Backwater at Blytheville done took Joiner town [00:21.11] [00:24.84]It was fifty families and children come to sink and drown [00:31.26] [00:35.10]The water was risin' up at my friend's door [00:41.53] [00:46.38]The water was risin' up at my friend's door [00:52.71] [00:56.21]The man said to his women folk [00:59.74]"Lord we'd better go" [01:02.12] [01:06.92]The water was risin' got up in my bed [01:12.95] [01:15.63]Lord the water was rollin' got up to my bed [01:21.18] [01:24.63]I thought I would take a trip [01:26.90]Lord out on the big ice sled [01:30.17] [01:34.66]Oh I can hear Lord Lord water upon my door [01:40.72] [01:41.37]You know what I mean look-a here [01:45.12] [01:46.53]I hear the ice Lord Lord was sinkin' down [01:51.72] [01:54.97]I couldn't get no boats there [01:58.14]Marion City gone down [02:00.29] [02:02.41]So high the water was risin' our men sinkin' down [02:08.56] [02:12.84]Man the water was risin' at places all around [02:17.85] [02:18.55]Boy they's all around [02:20.19] [02:22.10]It was fifty men and children come to sink and drown [02:27.29] [02:29.40]Oh Lordy women and grown men drown [02:35.08] [02:38.68]Oh women and children sinkin' down [02:43.59] [02:44.24]Lord have mercy [02:45.56] [02:47.64]I couldn't see nobody's home [02:49.78]And wasn't no one to be found