Key: D minor
Verse 1
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And with Max Roach,
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Paul West,
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and Wynton Kelly,
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most soulful tunes.
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It's called The Backwater Blues.
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When it rains five days
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and the skies turn black as night
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Well, when it rains five days
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an d the skies turn black
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as night
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You know there's trouble in
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the lowlands,
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an d everything ain't
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right.
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Oh well, I woke up this morning,
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couldn't even get out of my door.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah,
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I woke up this morning,
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couldn't even get out of my door,
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there was enough trouble
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to make a poor girl wonder where
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she ought to go.
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Then they rowed a little boat
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About five miles across the pond
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Yes, they rowed a little boat
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About five miles across the pond
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I packed all my clothes
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then they rode me right
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along.
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Well, when it thunders
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an d the wind begins to blow,
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Can't you hear the thunder,
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see the lightning,
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and feel the wind beginnin'
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to blow?
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Lord, it makes you think
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that ain't got no place
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to go.
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on a high old lonesome hill
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
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I went and stood,
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stood on a high old lonesome hill
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I look down with tears in my eyes,
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on the house where I used to live.
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Ah, that's why the blues
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done called me,
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called me to pack my clothes
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an d go.
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Yeah, yeah, the blues
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done called me,
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called me to pack my
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clothes an d go.
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Cause my house done fell down,
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and I can't live there
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no more.
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Some body, somebody,
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please tell me,
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like me to go?
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Can't you see I'm tired,
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and I don't feel like moving no more.
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But if I ever get my
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nerve settled down,
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I'll be a mean so -and -so.
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Dinah Dinah Washington will return for
One Number with an all -star group
Wynton Kelly,
Max Roche, and Paul West remain on stage.
As we bring up first,
a superb trombonist.
One of his best -known solos
is on the Woody Herman second
recording of Blue Flame.
And recently he was given the job of
leading the Benny Goodman Orchestra
in the absence of Benny
for about three months.
Urbie Green.
Then a man whose talents
encompass the mellophone,
the vibes, the trumpet,
the vocal and compositorial
talents.
He's an all -around entertainer
as well. Don Elliott.
And one of the fast and furious men of jazz,
Terry Gibbs.
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