12 Bar/Backwater Blues

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When it rains five days and the skies turn dark as night 
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When it rains five days and the skies turn dark as night 
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There was trouble's takin' place in the lowlands at night 

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I woke up this mornin', can't even get out of my door 
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I woke up this mornin', can't even get out of my door 

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There's been enough trouble to make a poor girl 
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wonder where she want to go 

Then they rowed a little boat about five miles 'cross the pond 
Then they rowed a little boat about five miles 'cross the pond 
I packed all my clothes, throwed them in and they rowed me along 
When it thunders and lightnin' and when the wind begins to blow 
When it thunders and lightnin' and the wind begins to blow 
There's thousands of people ain't got no place to go 
Then I went and stood upon some high old lonesome hill 
Then I went and stood upon some high old lonesome hill 
Then looked down on the house were I used to live 
Backwater 
blues done call me to pack my things and go 
Backwater blues done call me to pack my things and go 
'Cause my house fell down and I can't live there no more 
Mmm, I can't move no more 
Mmm, I can't move no more 
There ain't no place for a poor old girl to go