Back Water Blues

When it rained five days
 And the skies turned dark at night
 When it rained five days
 And the skies turned dark at night
 There was trouble takin' place
 In the lowland at night
 I woke up this mornin'
 Couldn't even get out of my door
 I woke up this mornin'
 Couldn't even get out of my door
 Enough trouble to make a poor woman
 Wonder where she's gonna go
 They rowed a little boat
 About five miles across the farm
 Said they rowed a little boat
 About five miles across the farm
 I packed up all of my clothes, trowed them in
 And they rowed me along
 Where it thundered and lightnin'
 And the wind began to blow
 Said it thundered and lightnin'
 And the wind began to blow
 There was thousands of people
 They had no place to go
 I went out and stood up
 On a high old lonesome hill
 I went out and stood up
 On a high old lonesome hill
 I looked down on the house
 Where I used to live
 Back water blues that calls me
 To pack my things and go
 Back water blues that calls me
 To pack my things and go
 'Cause my house fell down
 And I can't live there no more
 
 Ooh, I can't live there no more
 Ooh, I can't live there no more
 There ain't no place for a poor woman to go