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High Water Everywhere - Part II by Charley Patton

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Charley Patton
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Written in response to the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, many consider this to be Charlie Patton’s magnus Opus. In 1927 the most destructive flood in US History occurred around Mississippi covering 26,000 square miles of the Mississippi Delta. Hundreds of people where killed and thousands more we...

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High Water Everywhere - Part II Lyrics

Backwater at Blytheville, backed up all around
Backwater at Blytheville, done took Joiner town
It was fifty families and children come to sink and drown

The water was risin' up at my friend's door
The water was risin' 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
Lord, the water was rollin', got up to 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
You know what I mean, look-a here
I hear the ice, Lord, Lord, was sinkin' down
I couldn't get no boats there, Marion City gone down

So high the water was risin' our men sinkin' down
Man, the water was risin' at places all around
Boy, they's all around
It was fifty men and children come to sink and drown

Oh, Lordy, women and grown men drown
Oh, women and children sinkin' down
Lord, have mercy
I couldn't see nobody's home and wasn't no one to be found

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High Water Everywhere - Part II was written by Charley Patton.

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