Bessie Smith - Back Water Blues текст песни

When it rained five days and the sky turned dark as night (2x)
Then trouble's taking place in the lowlands tonight.

I woke up this morning, can't even get out of my door (2x)
That's enough trouble to make a poor girl wonder where she want to go.

They rowed a little boat about five miles across the farm (2x)
I packed all of my clothes, throwed them in, and they rowed me along.

When it thundered and lighteninged and the wind began to blow (2x)
There's thousands of people ain't got no place to go.

And I went and stood up on some high old lonesome hill (2x)
And looked down on the house where I used to live.

Back Water Blues done calls me to pack my things and go (2x)
Cause my house fell down, and I can't live there no more.

Mmm, I can't move no more (2x)
There ain't no place for a poor old girl to go.