[00:00.00]Rising High Water Blues - Blind Lemon Jefferson
[00:08.34]Backwater rising
[00:11.73]Southern peoples can't make no time
[00:18.50]I said
[00:18.90]Backwater rising
[00:21.52]Southern peoples can't make no time
[00:28.15]And I can't get no hearing
[00:31.43]From that Memphis girl of mine
[00:38.12]Water in Arkansas
[00:41.27]People screaming in Tennessee
[00:47.29]Oh people screaming in Tennessee
[00:55.63]If I don't leave Memphis
[00:58.35]Backwater spill all over poor me
[01:05.80]People since its raining
[01:09.39]It has been for nights and days
[01:14.92]People since its raining
[01:17.79]Has been for nights and days
[01:24.18]Thousands people stands on the hill
[01:27.02]Looking down were they used to stay
[01:33.72]Children stand there screaming mama
[01:37.61]We ain't got no home
[01:42.43]Oh mama we ain't got no home
[01:50.54]Papa says to the children
[01:53.67]Backwater left us all alone
[02:01.45]Backwater rising
[02:04.47]Come in my windows and door
[02:10.18]The backwater rising
[02:12.69]Come in my windows and door
[02:17.98]I leave with a prayer in my heart
[02:20.80]Backwater won't rise no more