Backwater Blues Songtext / Lyric

When it rains five days and the sky turns dark as night.
When it rains five days and the sky turns dark as night.
There is trouble takin' place in the low-lands at night.

When it thunders and lightenin', and the wind began to blow.
When it thunders and lightenin', and the wind began to blow.
*Well,* there's thousands of people ain't got nowhere to go.

Oh, I went and stood on some high old lonesome hill.
Oh, I went and stood on some high old lonesome hill.
I looked down on the house where my baby used to live.

Hmmmmmmmm
I can't live there no more.
Say, my house fell down, and I got nowhere to go.

Well, they rowed a little boar 'bout five miles 'cross the farm.
Well, they rowed a little boar 'bout five miles 'cross the farm.
I packed all my clothes, and they rowed me along.