Back Water Blues

When it rains five days

And the skies turn black as night

I said when it rains five days

And the skies turn black as night

You know there's trouble in the lowlands

And everything ain't right

Well, well, I woke up this mornin'

Couldn't even get out of my door

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I woke up this mornin'

I couldn't even get out of my door

There was enough trouble

To make a poor girl wonder where she's oughta go

'Bout that time they rowed a little boat

About five miles across the farm

Yeah, yeah, I said they rowed a little boat, rowed a little boat

About five miles across the farm

I packed up all of my clothes, and throwed them in

Then they rowed me right along

That's why, that's why the blues done called me

Called me to pack my clothes and go

The blues done called me

Called me to pack my clothes and go

'Cause my house done fell down

And I can't live there no more

Somebody, somebody, somebody please tell me

Where there's for a poor girl like me to go

Yeah, can't you see I'm tired?

And I don't feel like moving no more

But, but if I ever get my nerves settled down, Lord

I'll be a mill so and so