Backwater Blues

When it rained five days and the sky turned dark as night
 When it rained five days and the sky turned dark as night
 Then trouble's takin' place in the lowlands at night
 I woke up this mornin', can't even get out of my door
 I woke up this mornin', can't even get out of my door
 There's enough trouble to make a poor girl wonder where she wanna 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 'em in and they rowed me along
 When it thunders and lightnin', and 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
 And I went and stood up on some high old lonesome hill
 And I went and stood up on some high old lonesome hill
 Then looked down on the house where I used to live
 Backwater blues done called me to pack my things and go
 Backwater blues done called 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