High Water Everywhere Pt. 1-Charlie Patton

[ti:High Water Everywhere Pt. 1] [ar:Charlie Patton] [al:The Best Of Charlie Patton] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]High Water Everywhere Pt. 1 - Charlie Patton [00:03.49]Well backwater done rose all around Sumner now [00:08.02]Drove me down the line [00:10.63] [00:13.47]Backwater done rose at Sumner [00:16.02]Drove poor Charley down the line [00:19.07] [00:22.69]Lord I'll tell the world the water [00:25.53] [00:26.11]Done crept through this town [00:28.01] [00:30.53]Lord the whole round country [00:33.09]Lord river has overflowed [00:36.18] [00:39.27]Lord the whole round country [00:41.50] [00:42.40]Man is overflowed [00:44.32] [00:45.09]You know I can't stay here [00:47.03]I'll go where it's high boy [00:48.74] [00:49.89]I would goto the hilly country [00:53.00]But they got me barred [00:55.27] [00:57.28]Now look a here now at Leland [00:59.92] [01:00.53]River was rising high [01:02.62] [01:05.74]Look a here boys around Leland tell me [01:08.90]River was raising high [01:10.83] [01:11.35]Boy it's rising over there yeah [01:13.13] [01:15.02]I'm gonna move to Greenville [01:16.93] [01:18.18]Fore I leave goodbye [01:19.98] [01:22.43]Look a here the water now Lordy [01:24.56]Levee broke rose most everywhere [01:28.28] [01:31.12]The water at Greenville and Leland [01:34.19]Lord it done rose everywhere [01:36.35] [01:36.92]Boy you can't never stay here [01:38.66] [01:40.30]I would go down to Rosedale [01:42.23] [01:42.74]But they tell me there's water there [01:45.31] [01:47.58]Now the water now mama [01:50.07] [01:50.67]Done took Charley's town [01:52.68] [01:55.78]Well they tell me the water [01:57.65] [01:58.71]Done took Charley's town [02:00.80] [02:01.76]Boy I'm going to Vicksburg [02:03.17] [02:04.77]Well I'm going to Vicksburg [02:06.96] [02:07.84]For that high of mine [02:09.88] [02:11.82]I am going up that water [02:14.06]Where lands don't never flow [02:16.55] [02:19.48]Well I'm going over the hill where [02:21.63]Water oh don't ever flow [02:25.04]Boy hit Sharkey County and everything was down in Stovall [02:28.32] [02:30.53]But that whole county was leaving [02:32.53] [02:33.51]Over that Tallahatchie shore Boy [02:35.59] [02:36.09]Went to Tallahatchie and got it over there [02:37.98] [02:38.53]Lord the water done rushed all over [02:41.65]Down old Jackson road [02:43.58] [02:46.68]Lord the water done raised [02:48.83] [02:49.65]Over the Jackson road [02:51.47] [02:52.08]Boy it starched my clothes [02:53.75] [02:55.64]I'm going back to the hilly country [02:58.63]Won't be worried no more