Bessie Smith - Back Water Blues Lyrics

Lyrics Back Water Blues - Bessie Smith



When it rained five days and the sky turned dark as night
When it rained five days and the sky turned dark as night
Then trouble's takin' place in the lowlands at night
I woke up this mornin' can't even get out of my door
I woke up this mornin' can't even get out of my door
There's enough trouble to make a poor girl wonder where she wanna go
Then they rowed a little boat about five miles cross the pond
Then they rowed a little boat about five miles cross the pond
I packed all my clothes, throwed 'em in and they rowed me along
When it thunders and lightnin' and the wind begins to blow
When it thunders and lightnin' and the wind begins to blow
There's thousands of people ain't got no place to go
And I went and stood up on some high old lonesome hill
And I went and stood up on some high old lonesome hill
Then looked down on the house where I used to live
Backwater blues done called me to pack my things and go
Backwater blues done called me to pack my things and go
'Cause my house fell down and I can't live there no more
Mmm, I can't move no more
Mmm, I can't move no more
There ain't no place for a poor old girl to go



Writer(s): B. Mcghee


Bessie Smith - 100 Blues Classics
Album 100 Blues Classics
date of release
13-04-2011

1 Drivin' Wheel
2 Have A Good Time
3 Where Did You Sleep Last Night?
4 My Sweet Lovin' Woman
5 Christmas and New Year Blues
6 Dry Spell Blues
7 A Good Man Is Hard To Find
8 Booted
9 Call It Stormy Monday (But Tuesday Is Just As Bad)
10 Trouble
11 He's in the Jailhouse Now
12 Strange Fruit
13 Lord, Send Me an Angel
14 Cannon's Blues
15 Dark Was the Night - Cold Was the Ground
16 Billie's Blues (Live)
17 Trouble In Mind
18 Baby What You Want Me To Do
19 Stackolee
20 John Henry
21 Preachin' The Blues
22 Bedroom Blues
23 Things 'Bout Coming My Way
24 The Wolf Is at Your Door
25 Whiskey Headed Blues
26 Cool Drink of Water Blues
27 Peace in the Valley
28 My Baby
29 Sleepy Man Blues
30 It's Nobody's Fault but Mine
31 Back Water Blues
32 My Black Mama
33 I'm a King Bee (Live)
34 Mail Order Woman
35 Me and My Dog Blues
36 T Model Boogie
37 Black Angel Blues
38 Floating Bridge
39 Every Day I Have the Blues
40 Black Cat Bone
41 Prove It on Me Blues
42 Rollin' Mamma Blues
43 Snatch And Grab It
44 King Size Papa
45 Mardi Gras In New Orleans
46 God Bless the Child (Live)
47 Good Morning Little School Girl
48 Airplane Blues
49 22-20 Blues
50 California Blues
51 Bo-Weavil Blues
52 Kansas City Blues
53 Kid Man Blues
54 Bald Head
55 Hobo Blues
56 Baby Please Don't Go
57 One Scotch One Bourbon One Beer
58 I'm so Glad
59 Tipitina
60 Bad, Bad Whiskey
61 Oh Lord, Look What You're Doing to Me
62 Lightnin's Boogie
63 Seaboard Stomp
64 Mean Actin' Mama
65 5 O'clock Blues
66 Nice Work If You Can Get It (Live)
67 Backwater Blues
68 Delta Blues
69 Canned Heat Blues
70 Shetland Pony Blues
71 Devil Got My Woman
72 ma Rainey's Black Bottom
73 How Long, How Long Blues
74 Highway Blues
75 Moanin' At Midnight
76 Black Betty (Future Blues Mix)
77 Christmas In Jail
78 Decoration Day Blues
79 Candy Man Blues
80 Willie Mae Blues
81 C.C. Pill Blues
82 Cross and Evil Woman Blues
83 Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out
84 Sent for You Yesterday
85 Candy Man Blues
86 I'm a Rattlesnakin' Daddy
87 Didn't It Rain




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