High Water (For Charley Patton) - Live at Oakes Garden Theatre, Niagara Falls, ON - August 2003

High water risin'
 Risin' night and day
 All the gold and silver
 Are being stolen away
 Big Joe Turner lookin' East and West
 From the dark room of his mind
 He made it to Kansas City
 Twelfth Street and Vine
 Nothing standing there
 High water everywhere
 High water risin'
 The shacks are slidin' down
 Folks lose their possessions
 Folks are leaving town
 Bertha Mason shook it, broke it
 Then she hung it on a wall
 Says, ["You're dancin' with whom they tell you to
 Or you don't dance at all."]
 It's tough out there
 High water everywhere
 I got a cravin' love for blazing speed
 Got a hopped up Mustang Ford
 Jump into the wagon, love
 Throw your panties overboard
 I can write you poems
 Make a strong man lose his mind
 I'm no pig without a wig
 I hope you treat me kind
 Things are breakin' up out there
 High water everywhere
 High water risin'
 Six inches 'bove my head
 Coffins droppin' in the street
 Like balloons made out of lead
 Water pourin' into Vicksburg
 Don't know what I'm going to do
 ["Don't reach out for me,"] she said
 It's rough out there
 High water everywhere
 Well, George Lewis told the Englishman
 The Italian and the Jew
 "You can't open your mind, boys
 To every conceivable point of view."
 They got Charles Darwin trapped out there on Highway Five
 Judge says to the High Sheriff
 High Water everywhere
 The Cuckoo is a pretty bird
 She warbles as she flies
 I'm preachin' the Word of God
 I'm puttin' out your eyes
 I asked Fat Nancy for something to eat
 She said, "Take it off the shelf.
 As great as you are, man
 You'll never be greater than yourself."
 I told her I didn't really care
 High water everywhere
 I'm getting' up in the morning
 I believe I'll dust my broom
 Keeping away from the women
 I'm givin' 'em lots of room
 Thunder rolling over Clarksdale
 Everything is looking blue
 I just can't be happy, love
 Unless you're happy too
 It's bad out there
 High water everywhere