Key: Bb major
Intro 1
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C
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Verse 1
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When it rains five
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days and the skies turn dark as night
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When it rains five days and
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the skies turn dark as night
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Then trouble's takin' place
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in the lowlands at night
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I woke up this mornin',
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can't even get out of my door
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can't even get out of my door
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There's been enough trouble to make a poor
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girl wonder where she want to go
Verse 2
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Then they rowed a little boat about
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five miles 'cross the pond
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Then they rowed a little boat
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about five miles 'cross the pond
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I packed all my clothes,
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throwed them in and they rowed me along
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When it thunders and lightnin' and when
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the wind begins to blow
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When it thunders and lightnin'
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There's thousands of people ain't got no place to go
Interlude 1
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Verse 3
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Then I went and stood upon
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some high old lonesome hill
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Then I went and stood upon some high
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old lonesome hill
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Then looked down on
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the house were I used to live
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Backwater Blues
Verse 4
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done call me to pack
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my things and go
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Backwater blues done call me to pack
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my things and go
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'Cause my house fell down and I
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Verse 5
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move
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no more
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Mm, I can't move no more
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C
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There ain't no place for a poor old
Outro 1
girl to go
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