Charley Patton - High Water Everywhere, Pt. 2 Lyrics
Backwater at Blytheville, backed up all aroundIt was fifty families and children come to sink and drownThe water was rising up at my friend's doorThe man said to his women folk Lord we'd better goThe water was risin' got up in my bedI thought I would take a trip, Lord, out on the big ice sledOh, I can hear, Lord, Lord, water upon my doorI couldn't get no boats there, Marion City gone downSo high water was risin' our men sinkin downIt was fifty men and children come to sink and drownOh, Lordy, women and grown men drownI couldn't see nobody home and was no one to be found