Backwater Blues chords by
Count Basie & His Orchestra
Count Basie & His Orchestra
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Key: Ab major
Verse 1
G
G

C
C

G
G

F#aug
F#aug

C
C

D
D

G
G

C
C

When it rains five days,
Em
Em

D
D

Bm
Bm

and the skies turn black at night
Gm
Gm

Am
Am

G
G

C
C

I said
when it rains five days
D
D

G
G

C
C

G
G

and the skies turn black at night,
C
C

G
G

C
C

Em
Em

C
C

A
A

C
C

you know there's trouble
D
D

in the low land
C
C

D
D

Everything
Verse 2
G
G

C
C

ain't right
G
G

D
D

G
G

Em
Em

G
G

C
C

Well, when I woke up this morning
Em
Em

I couldn't even get out of my door
Verse 3
G
G

A
A

G
G

C
C

Yes, when I
woke, when I woke,
when I woke up this morning,
Edim
Edim

C
C

I couldn't even get out of my door,
Em
Em

G
G

Em
Em

C
C

Am
Am

C
C

there was enough trouble
D
D

G
G

to make a poor girl
wonder where she ought to go.
C
C

Am
Am

D
D

G
G

By that time, they rode a little boat,
C
C

rode a little boat,
G
G

about five miles
Em
Em

G
G

across the pond.
G
G

C
C

Oh, they rode a little boat,
rode a little boat,
rode a little boat, rode a little boat
G
G

C
C

G
G

C
C

G
G

About five miles across the pond
Eb
Eb

Edim
Edim

C
C

A
A

Yeah, I packed all my clothes
C
C

D
D

and throwed them in
C
C

Am
Am

D
D

G
G

Then they rode me right along
D
D

That's why, that's why,
Gm
Gm

that's why the blues
G
G

doesn't call me.
C
C

Call me to pack
G
G

my clothes and go.
D
D

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
C
C

The blues, the blues, the blues,
C
C

the blues don't call me.
G
G

Tell me to pack my clothes and go
C
C

D
D

A
A

Cause my house done fell
G
G

C
C

down low
D
D

G
G

C
C

G
G

D
D

And I can't live there no more
Interlude 1
C
C

D
D

G
G

C
C

G
G

C
C

Gm
Gm

C
C

C
C

G
G

Bb
Bb

Am
Am

C
C

D
D

C
C

D
D

G
G

C
C

G
G

D
D

Somebody, somebody,
Verse 4
G
G

C
C

G
G

C
C

somebody please tell me
Tell me, where's it for a
Em
Em

poor girl like me to go?
G
G

D
D

C
C

Yeah! Can't you see I'm tired?
Can't you see I'm tired?
Can't you see I'm tired?
Em
Em

And I don't feel like movin' no more
Yeah!
A
A

C
C

But if I ever get my nerve settled down
Am
Am

D
D

I believe that I'm safe,
C
C

G
G

safe an d sound.

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