Backwater Blues - Josh White Jr

Backwater Blues - Josh White Jr.

When it rained five days

The skies turned dark at night

When it rained five days

The skies turned dark at night

Trouble was takin' place

In the lowland at night

Where it thundered and lightnin'

And the wind began to blow

Where it thundered and lightnin' wind began to blow

Thousands of people

They had no way to go

They rowed a little boat

Five miles across the farm

Where They rowed a little boat

Five miles across the farm

Packed I up all of my clothes, trowed them in

And they rowed me along

And I went out and stood up

On a high old lonesome hill

Yes I went out and stood up

On a high old lonesome hill

Looked down on the place left

Where I used to live

Back water blues calls me

To pack my things and go

Back water blues

Mack me pack my things and go

My house fell down

And I can't live there no more