| lyric | 1. When it rains five days and the sky turns dark as night.
When it rains five days and the sky turns dark as night.
There is trouble taking place in the low land at night.
2. I woke up this mornin’, can’t even get out my door,
There’s enough trouble to make a poor girl
wonder where she wants to go.
3. Backwater blues done caused me
to pack my things an’ go,
’Cause my house fell down an’
I can’t live there no mo’.
4. They rowed a little boat five miles
’cross the pond,
I packed all my things,
throwed ’em in,
an’ they rowed me along.
5. When it thunders an’ lighnin’s
an’ the wind begins to blow,
There’s thousands of people
ain’t got no place to go.
6. Mm, mm, I can’t move no more,
’Case there ain’t no place
for a poor old girl to go. |