Back Water Blues Lyrics - Careless Love - Bessie Smith

When it rains five days and the skies turn dark as night 

When it rains five days and the skies turn 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 been enough trouble to make a poor girl wonder where she want to 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 them in and they rowed me along 

When it thunders and lightnin' and when 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 

Then I went and stood upon some high old lonesome hill 

Then I went and stood upon some high old lonesome hill 

Then looked down on the house were I used to live 

Backwater blues done call me to pack my things and go 

Backwater blues done call 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