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Well backwater done rose all around sumner now |
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Drove me down the line |
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Backwater done rose at sumner |
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Drove poor charley down the line |
| [00:22.44] |
Lord I'll tell the world the water |
| [00:25.66] |
Done crept through this town |
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Lord the whole round country |
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Lord river has overflowed |
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Lord the whole round country |
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Man is overflowed |
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You know I can't stay here |
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I'll go where it's high boy |
| [00:49.01] |
I would go to the hilly country |
| [00:52.09] |
But they got me barred |
| [00:56.40] |
Now look-a here now at leland |
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River was risin' high |
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Look-a here boys around leland tell me |
| [01:07.54] |
River was raisin' high |
| [01:10.13] |
Boy it's risin' over there yeah |
| [01:13.70] |
I'm gonna move to greenville |
| [01:16.86] |
Fore I leave goodbye |
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Look-a here the water now lordy |
| [01:23.26] |
Levee broke rose most everywhere |
| [01:29.58] |
The water at greenville and leland |
| [01:32.57] |
Lord it done rose everywhere |
| [01:34.76] |
Boy you can't never stay here |
| [01:38.63] |
I would go down to rosedale |
| [01:40.87] |
But they tell me there's water there |
| [01:45.69] |
Now the water now mama |
| [01:48.75] |
Done took charley's town |
| [01:53.73] |
Well they tell me the water |
| [01:56.54] |
Done took charley's town |
| [01:59.32] |
Boy I'm goin' to vicksburg |
| [02:02.60] |
Well I'm goin' to vicksburg |
| [02:05.56] |
For that high of mine |
| [02:09.51] |
I am goin' up that water |
| [02:11.84] |
Where lands don't never flow |
| [02:17.08] |
Well I'm goin' over the hill where |
| [02:19.32] |
Water oh don't ever flow |
| [02:22.44] |
Boy hit sharkey county and everything was down in stovall |
| [02:27.89] |
But that whole county was leavin' |
| [02:30.90] |
Over that tallahatchie shore boy |
| [02:33.79] |
Went to tallahatchie and got it over there |
| [02:37.47] |
Lord the water done rushed all over |
| [02:39.88] |
Down old jackson road |
| [02:43.81] |
Lord the water done raised |
| [02:46.71] |
Over the jackson road |
| [02:49.27] |
Boy it starched my clothes |
| [02:52.60] |
I'm goin' back to the hilly country |
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Won't be worried no more |
