Bessie Smith - Ken Burns Jazz-The Story Of America's Music

Backwater Blues

When it rained five days and the sky turned dark as night
When it rained five days and the sky turned dark as night
Then trouble's takin' place in the lowlands at night

I woke up this mornin', can't even get out of my door
I woke up this mornin', can't even get out of my door
There's enough trouble to make a poor girl wonder where she wanna go

Then they rowed a little boat about five miles 'cross the pond
Then they rowed a little boat about five miles 'cross the pond
I packed all my clothes, throwed 'em in and they rowed me along

When it thunders and lightnin', and the wind begins to blow
When it thunders and lightnin', and the wind begins to blow
There's thousands of people, ain't got no place to go

And I went and stood up on some high old lonesome hill
And I went and stood up on some high old lonesome hill
Then looked down on the house where I used to live

Backwater blues done called me to pack my things and go
Backwater blues done called me to pack my things and go
'Cause my house fell down and I can't live there no more

Mmm, I can't move no more
Mmm, I can't move no more
There ain't no place for a poor old girl to go



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Writer(s): Bessie Smith
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Other Album Tracks

  1. Star Dust - Take 1
  2. Soon One Mornin' (Death Come A-Creepin' In My Room)
  3. Memphis Blues
  4. Livery Stable Blues
  5. Charleston
  6. Chimes Blues
  7. Backwater Blues
  8. The Pearls
  9. Dead Man Blues
  10. Cake Walking Babies (From Home)

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Altri album

  1. Blue Notes – A Blues Survey from 1920-1960, vol. 1 (feat. Clarence Williams' Blue Five & Little Hat Jones) - Single
  2. Me and My Gin
  3. All That Jazz, Vol. 57: Bessie Smith - A Decade of the Blues (24 Bit HD Remastering 2016)
  4. The Best of Bessie Smith
  5. The Empress of the Blue - Original Recordings
  6. Over the Top Blues Masterpieces, Vol. 2 (Remastered)
  7. Introducing Bessie Smith, Vol. 2
  8. All the Greatest Hits Ever Made, Vol. 4 (Remastered)
  9. The Empress of the Blues (40 Original Tracks Remastered)
  10. Squeeze Me (Original Recordings, 1925-1926)

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