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Backwater at Blytheville, backed up all around
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Backwater at Blytheville, done took Joiner town
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It was fifty families and children come to sink and drown
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The water was risin' up at my friend's door
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The water was risin' up at my friend's door
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The man said to his women folk, "Lord, we'd better go"
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The water was risin', got up in my bed
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Lord, the water was rollin', got up to my bed
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I thought I would take a trip, Lord, out on the big ice sled
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Oh, I can hear, Lord, Lord, water upon my door,
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you know what I mean, look-a here
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I hear the ice, Lord, Lord, was sinkin' down,
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I couldn't get no boats there, Marion City gone down
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So high the water was risin' our men sinkin' down
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Man, the water was risin' at places all around,
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boy, they's all around
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It was fifty men and children come to sink and drown
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Oh, Lordy, women and grown men drown
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Oh, women and children sinkin' down
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Lord, have mercy
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I couldn't see nobody's home and wasn't no one to be found
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High Water Everywhere (Part 2)
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| Charley Patton |
