Back Water Blues
 

When it rained five days : and the skies turned dark as night
Then trouble taken place : in the lowlands at night

I woke up this morning : can't even get out of my door
There's enough trouble : to make a poor girl wonder where she want to go

Then they rowed a little boat : about five miles across the pond
I packed all my clothes throwed them in : and they rolled me along

When it thunders and lightning : and the wind begin to blow
There's thousands of people : ain't got no place to go

Then I went and stood : up on some high old lonesome hill
And looked down on the house : where I used to live

Backwater blues : done caused me to pack up my things and go
Because my house fell down : and I can't live there no more

Mmm : I can't move no more
There ain't no place : for a poor old girl to go