Dinah Washington - Backwater Blues (Live Newport, US / 1958) Lyrics

Lyrics Backwater Blues (Live Newport, US / 1958) - Dinah Washington



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



Writer(s): BESSIE SMITH


Dinah Washington - The Complete Dinah Washington On Mercury Vol.5 (1956-1958)

1 Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye
2 If I Could Be With You (One Hour Tonight)
3 Careless Love
4 Never Let Me Go
5 It's Growing Cold - 1989 Version
6 The More I See You - 1989 Version
7 Just Dream - 1989 Version
8 Boom Boom - 1989 Version
9 Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby?
10 You're Crying
11 Somebody Loves Me
12 Perdido
13 Caravan
14 They Didn't Believe Me
15 I'll Close My Eyes
16 Makin' Whoopee
17 Jailhouse Blues
18 Trombone Butter
19 You've Been a Good Old Wagon
20 Ain't Misbehavin' (I'm Saving My Love For You)
21 Jitterbug Waltz
22 Ain't Cha Glad
23 Blues Down Home
24 Honky Tonk
25 Tears To Burn
26 Fine Fat Daddy
27 Squeeze Me
28 After You've Gone
29 All Of Me - 1957 Album Version
30 Show Time
31 Send Me To The 'Lectric Chair
32 Keepin' Out of Mischief Now
33 Relax Max
34 The Kissing Way Home
35 I Know
36 To Love And Be Loved
37 All Because Of You
38 I'll Drown In My Tears
39 You Let My Love Get Cold
40 But Not For Me
41 Bargain Day
42 I'm Gonna Keep My Eyes On You
43 Ain't Nobody Home
44 Bad Luck
45 Somewhere Along The Line
46 Make Me A Present Of You
47 Christopher Columbus
48 Tain't Nobody's Biz-Ness If I Do
49 Someone's Rocking My Dreamboat
50 I've Got a Feeling I'm Falling
51 Me And My Gin
52 Ring A My Phone




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