Back Water Blues (7/6/58)-Dinah Washington

[ti:Back Water Blues] [ar:Dinah Washington] [al:Complete Jazz Series : 1958-1959] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Back Water Blues (7/6/58) - Dinah Washington [00:25.72]When it rained five days [00:27.79] [00:29.88]And the skies turned dark at night [00:32.18] [00:37.44]When it rained five days [00:39.50] [00:41.82]And the skies turned black at night [00:44.30] [00:48.84]You know there was trouble in the lowlands [00:51.12] [00:53.12]And everything isn't right [00:55.57] [01:00.64]When I woke up this mornin' [01:03.64] [01:05.59]Couldn't even get out of my door [01:08.20] [01:12.56]I woke up this mornin' [01:14.89] [01:17.33]Couldn't even get out of my door [01:19.55] [01:23.36]There was enough trouble to make a poor woman [01:27.91] [01:28.54]Wonder where she's wanna go [01:30.64] [01:34.91]They rowed a little boat [01:37.41] [01:39.77]About five miles across the farm [01:42.72] [01:46.73]Said they rowed a little boat [01:49.02] [01:51.03]About five miles across the farm [01:54.11] [01:57.73]I packed up all of my clothes [01:59.86]And throwed them in [02:01.09] [02:02.69]And they rowed me right along [02:04.82] [02:08.98]Well when it thundered and lightnin' [02:12.57] [02:14.46]And the wind began to blow [02:16.40] [02:19.69]Said it thundered see the lightnin' [02:24.19] [02:25.35]Feel the wind beginning to blow [02:27.78] [02:31.05]Not make you think about thousands of people [02:34.48] [02:36.54]And they had no place to go [02:38.86] [02:43.78]Then I went and stood [02:45.36] [02:48.00]On a high old lonesome hill [02:51.01] [02:53.67]Yeah yeah yeah yeah [02:55.63]I went and stood [02:56.57] [02:58.27]Stood on a high old lonesome hill [03:01.86] [03:04.61]I looked down with stretching my two arms [03:08.78] [03:10.20]On the house Where I used to live [03:12.82] [03:15.21]Back water blues that calls me [03:18.52] [03:20.18]Call me to pack my clothes and go [03:23.93] [03:27.84]Back water blues that calls me [03:30.34] [03:32.30]Call me to pack my clothes and go [03:35.10] [03:38.07]Cause my house fell down [03:41.24] [03:42.93]And I can't live there no more [03:45.90] [03:47.14]Somebody sombody please tell me [03:51.91] [03:53.34]Why the boss let me go [03:56.55] [04:00.19]Dance with sunset [04:01.89] [04:04.90]And I don't like and move there no more [04:08.02] [04:11.19]What a place can get my nerves settle down [04:15.26] [04:16.21]I'll be moving there so in so