Rising High Water Blues
 

Backwater rising : southern people can't make no time
And I can't get no hearing : from that Memphis gal of mine

Water all in Arkansas : people screaming in Tennessee
If I don't leave Memphis : black water been all over poor me

People since it's raining : it has been for nights and days
Thousand people stands on the hill : looking down where they used to stay

Children stand there screaming : mama we ain't got no home
Papa says to children : black water left us all alone

Backwater rising : come in my windows and doors
I leave with a prayer in my heart : backwater won't rise no more