Backwater Blues-Josh White Jr.

[ti:Backwater Blues] [ar:Josh White Jr.] [al:Cortelia Clark] [by:] [offset:0] [00:03.85]Backwater Blues - Josh White Jr. [00:05.60] [00:29.99]When it rained five days [00:33.08] [00:33.61]The skies turned dark at night [00:36.12] [00:39.90]When it rained five days [00:42.15] [00:43.38]The skies turned dark at night [00:46.14] [00:49.75]Trouble was takin' place [00:52.29]In the lowland at night [00:56.07] [00:59.55]Where it thundered and lightnin' [01:01.44] [01:02.12]And the wind began to blow [01:05.93] [01:09.50]Where it thundered and lightnin' wind began to blow [01:15.23] [01:19.08]Thousands of people [01:21.51]They had no way to go [01:25.23] [01:28.83]They rowed a little boat [01:31.95] [01:32.55]Five miles across the farm [01:35.09] [01:38.46]Where They rowed a little boat [01:41.79]Five miles across the farm [01:44.16] [01:47.65]Packed I up all of my clothes, trowed them in [01:50.33]And they rowed me along [01:53.62] [02:52.15]And I went out and stood up [02:54.19]On a high old lonesome hill [02:57.77] [03:01.18]Yes I went out and stood up [03:03.30]On a high old lonesome hill [03:06.84] [03:10.20]Looked down on the place left [03:12.98]Where I used to live [03:15.70] [03:18.62]Back water blues calls me [03:21.67]To pack my things and go [03:24.90] [03:28.35]Back water blues [03:29.88] [03:30.59]Mack me pack my things and go [03:34.16] [03:37.75]My house fell down [03:40.16]And I can't live there no more