Back Water Blues

When it rained five days

and the skies

turned dark as night

When it rained five days

and the skies

turned dark as night

There was trouble takin' place

in the lowland at night

I woke up this mornin',

couldn't even get out of my door

I woke up this mornin',

couldn't even get out of my door

Enough trouble

to make a poor woman wonder

where she's gonna go

They rowed a little boat

just about five miles

across the farm

Said they rowed a little boat

just about five miles

across the farm

I packed up all of my clothes,

throwed them in,

and they rowed me along

Well it thundered and lightnin'd,

and the winds began to blow

Said it thundered and lightnin'd,

and the winds began to blow

There was thousands of people

They had no place to go

I went out and I stood

on a high old lonesome hill

I went out and I stood

on a high old lonesome hill

I looked down on the house

where I used to live

Back Water Blues that calls me

to pack my things and go

Back Water Blues that calls me

to pack my things and go

Cause my house fell down,

and I can't live there no more

Ooh, I can't live there no more

Ooh, I can't live there no more

There ain't no place

for a poor old woman to go