[00:00.721]Back Water Blues -Irma Thomas
[00:08.881]When it rained five days
[00:11.571]And the skies turned dark at night
[00:18.01]When it rained five days
[00:20.501]And the skies turned dark at night
[00:27.231]There was trouble takin ＇place
[00:29.751]In the lowland at night
[00:36.361]I woke up this mornin ＇
[00:38.991]Couldn ＇t even get out of my door
[00:45.621]I woke up this mornin ＇
[00:48.01]Couldn ＇t even get out of my door
[00:54.631]Enough trouble to make a poor woman
[00:58.61]Wonder where she ＇s gonna go
[01:03.861]They rowed a little boat
[01:05.861]About five miles across the farm
[01:12.551]Said they rowed a little boat
[01:15.111]About five miles across the farm
[01:21.541]I packed up all of my clothes trowed them in
[01:25.161]And they rowed me along
[01:30.521]Where it thundered and lightnin ＇
[01:33.141]And the wind began to blow
[01:39.481]Said it thundered and lightnin ＇
[01:42.101]And the wind began to blow
[01:48.711]There was thousands of people
[01:51.151]They had no place to go
[01:57.581]I went out and stood up
[02:00.151]On a high old lonesome hill
[02:06.531]I went out and stood up
[02:10.271]On a high old lonesome hill
[02:15.571]I looked down on the house
[02:18.971]Where I used to live
[02:24.531]Back water blues that calls me
[02:27.401]To pack my things and go
[02:33.641]Back water blues that calls me
[02:36.691]To pack my things and go
[02:42.71]＇Cause my house fell down
[02:44.641]And I can ＇t live there no more
[02:51.901]Ooh I can ＇t live there no more
[03:01.391]Ooh I can ＇t live there no more
[03:10.131]There ain ＇t no place for a poor woman to go