Backwater Blues

Текст песни Big Bill Broonzy - Backwater Blues

Do you remember the old blues sang back in the 1920s
I can't sing and play it just like them
But they was my friends and your friends too
Do you remember Bessie Smith
Old Backwater Blues

It rained five days
And the clouds turned as dark as night
Yes, it rained five days
And the clouds turned as dark as night
Lord and trouble take place
Lord in the lowland at night

I got up one morning, poor me
I couldn't get even get out of my door
Yes, I got up one morning, poor me
I couldn't even get out of my door
Lord, that was really enough trouble
To make a poor man wonder where in the world to go

Then I went and I stood up on a high
High old lonesome hill
Lord, I went and I stood up on a high
High old lonesome hill
Lord, and all I could do was
Look down on the house baby, where I used to live

Now it thundered and it lightninged
Lord, and the wind, wind began to blow
Now it thundered and it lightninged
Lord, and the wind began to blow
Lord, at that time a thousand of my poor people didn't have no place to go