High Water Everywhere Part 2 Lyrics

Charley Patton High Water Everywhere Part 2

Backwater at Blytheville, backed up all around

It was fifty families and children come to sink and
drown



The water was rising up at my friend's door

The man said to his women folk Lord we'd better go



The water was risin' got up in my bed

I thought I would take a trip, Lord, out on the big ice
sled



Oh, I can hear, Lord, Lord, water upon my door

I couldn't get no boats there, Marion City gone down



So high water was risin' our men sinkin down

It was fifty men and children come to sink and drown



Oh, Lordy, women and grown men drown

I couldn't see nobody home and was no one to be found