Back Water Blues-Bessie Smith

[ti:Backwater Blues] [ar:Bessie Smith] [al:The Essential Bessie Smith] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Back Water Blues - Bessie Smith [00:04.48]When it rains five days and the skies turn dark as night [00:10.73] [00:14.10]When it rains five days and the skies turn dark as night [00:19.80] [00:23.86]Then trouble's takin' place in the lowlands at night [00:30.61] [00:32.92]I woke up this mornin' can't even get out of my door [00:38.74] [00:42.04]I woke up this mornin' can't even get out of my door [00:48.29] [00:52.04]There's been enough trouble to make a poor girl wonder where she want to go [00:57.73] [01:00.67]Then they rowed a little boat about five miles 'cross the pond [01:08.61] [01:09.80]Then they rowed a little boat about five miles 'cross the pond [01:16.05] [01:18.86]I packed all my clothes throwed them in and they rowed me along [01:24.61] [01:28.11]When it thunders and lightnin' and when the wind begins to blow [01:33.37] [01:37.17]When it thunders and lightnin' and the wind begins to blow [01:42.05] [01:46.05]There's thousands of people ain't got no place to go [01:51.05] [01:54.61]Then I went and stood upon some high old lonesome hill [01:59.98] [02:03.82]Then I went and stood upon some high old lonesome hill [02:09.76] [02:12.70]Then looked down on the house were I used to live [02:18.26] [02:21.95]Backwater blues done call me to pack my things and go [02:27.32] [02:30.89]Backwater blues done call me to pack my things and go [02:36.58] [02:40.01]'Cause my house fell down and I can't live there no more [02:46.76] [02:49.07]Mmm I can't move no more [02:54.26] [02:58.14]Mmm I can't move no more [03:03.64] [03:07.08]There ain't no place for a poor old girl to go