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Backwater Blues
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Blues
Backwater Blues was released on January 1, 1956 by Smithsonian Folkways Recordings as a part of the album Big Bill Broonzy Sings Folk Songs
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Release DateJanuary 1, 1956
LabelSmithsonian Folkways Recordings
LanguageEnglish
Melodicness
Acousticness
Valence
Danceability
Energy
BPM83

Music Video

Music Video

Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS
Lee Conley Bradley
Lee Conley Bradley
Lead Vocals
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Bessie Smith
Bessie Smith
Songwriter

Lyrics

Do you remember the old blues sang back in the 1920s
I can't sing and play it just like them
But they was my friends and your friends too
Do you remember Bessie Smith
Old Backwater Blues
It rained five days
And the clouds turned as dark as night
Yes, it rained five days
And the clouds turned as dark as night
Lord and trouble take place
Lord in the lowland at night
I got up one morning, poor me
I couldn't get even get out of my door
Yes, I got up one morning, poor me
I couldn't even get out of my door
Lord, that was really enough trouble
To make a poor man wonder where in the world to go
Then I went and I stood up on a high
High old lonesome hill
Lord, I went and I stood up on a high
High old lonesome hill
Lord, and all I could do was
Look down on the house baby, where I used to live
Now it thundered and it lightninged
Lord, and the wind, wind began to blow
Now it thundered and it lightninged
Lord, and the wind began to blow
Lord, at that time a thousand of my poor people didn't have no place to go
Written by: Bessie Smith
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