Rising High Water Blues-Blind Lemon Jefferson/Blind Blake

[ti:Rising High Water Blues] [ar:Blind Lemon Jefferson] [al:The Complete Classic Sides Remastered: Atlanta & Chicago 1926 Disc B] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Rising High Water Blues - Blind Lemon Jefferson/Blind Blake [00:08.34]Backwater rising [00:11.05] [00:11.73]Southern peoples can't make no time [00:15.68] [00:18.50]I said [00:18.90]Backwater rising [00:21.52]Southern peoples can't make no time [00:24.35] [00:28.15]And I can't get no hearing [00:31.43]From that Memphis girl of mine [00:34.87] [00:38.12]Water in Arkansas [00:41.27]People screaming in Tennessee [00:45.23] [00:47.29]Oh people screaming in Tennessee [00:53.24] [00:55.63]If I don't leave Memphis [00:58.35]Backwater spill all over poor me [01:01.34] [01:05.80]People since its raining [01:08.41] [01:09.39]It has been for nights and days [01:12.58] [01:14.92]People since its raining [01:17.21] [01:17.79]Has been for nights and days [01:20.53] [01:24.18]Thousands people stands on the hill [01:27.02]Looking down were they used to stay [01:29.83] [01:33.72]Children stand there screaming mama [01:37.61]We ain't got no home [01:39.94] [01:42.43]Oh mama we ain't got no home [01:47.03] [01:50.54]Papa says to the children [01:52.48] [01:53.67]Backwater left us all alone [01:56.81] [02:01.45]Backwater rising [02:03.65] [02:04.47]Come in my windows and door [02:07.45] [02:10.18]The backwater rising [02:12.69]Come in my windows and door [02:15.36] [02:17.98]I leave with a prayer in my heart [02:20.29] [02:20.80]Backwater won't rise no more