[ti:High Water Everywhere, Pt. 1]
[ar:Charley Patton]
[al:The Very Best Of]
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[00:00.80]High Water Everywhere, Pt. 1 - Charley Patton
[00:03.24]Well, backwater done rose all around Sumner now,
[00:06.85]
[00:07.60]drove me down the line
[00:10.10]
[00:12.85]Backwater done rose at Sumner,
[00:16.21]drove poor Charley down the line
[00:18.65]
[00:21.77]Lord, I'll tell the world the water,
[00:25.14]done crept through this town
[00:27.26]
[00:29.20]Lord, the whole round country,
[00:32.21]Lord, river has overflowed
[00:34.77]
[00:37.64]Lord, the whole round country,
[00:40.62]man, is overflowed
[00:42.80]
[00:43.42]You know I can't stay here,
[00:45.12]I'll go where it's high, boy
[00:47.79]I would goto the hilly country,
[00:50.92]but, they got me barred
[00:53.03]
[00:54.90]Now, look-a here now at Leland
[00:57.40]
[00:58.03]river was risin' high
[01:00.34]
[01:03.09]Look-a here boys around Leland tell me,
[01:06.21]river was raisin' high
[01:08.63]Boy, it's risin' over there, yeah
[01:11.31]
[01:11.94]I'm gonna move to Greenville
[01:15.00]fore I leave, goodbye
[01:17.05]
[01:19.00]Look-a here the water now, Lordy,
[01:21.61]Levee broke, rose most everywhere
[01:24.49]
[01:27.47]The water at Greenville and Leland,
[01:30.60]Lord, it done rose everywhere
[01:33.03]Boy, you can't never stay here
[01:34.78]
[01:36.28]I would go down to Rosedale
[01:39.09]but, they tell me there's water there
[01:41.27]
[01:43.20]Now, the water now, mama,
[01:45.58]
[01:46.32]done took Charley's town
[01:48.13]
[01:51.00]Well, they tell me the water,
[01:53.19]
[01:53.87]done took Charley's town
[01:55.87]
[01:56.87]Boy, I'm goin' to Vicksburg
[01:58.62]
[01:59.68]Well, I'm goin' to Vicksburg,
[02:01.98]
[02:02.60]for that high of mine
[02:04.54]
[02:06.48]I am goin' up that water,
[02:09.16]where lands don't never flow
[02:11.05]
[02:13.84]Well, I'm goin' over the hill where,
[02:16.09]water, oh don't ever flow
[02:18.72]
[02:19.46]Boy, hit Sharkey County and everything was down in Stovall
[02:23.33]
[02:24.52]But, that whole county was leavin',
[02:27.39]over that Tallahatchie shore Boy,
[02:30.13]went to Tallahatchie and got it over there
[02:32.19]Lord, the water done rushed all over,
[02:35.30]down old Jackson road
[02:38.06]
[02:39.93]Lord, the water done raised,
[02:42.91]over the Jackson road
[02:44.79]
[02:45.35]Boy, it starched my clothes
[02:48.62]I'm goin' back to the hilly country,
[02:51.55]won't be worried no more
- 专辑：Dirt Road Blues
- 歌手：Charley Patton
- 歌曲：High Water Everywhere, Part 1