Backwater Blues Chords by Bessie Smith

_ [F#m] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
When it rained five days and the skies [E] turned dark [A] as night
_ [E] _ _ [Em] _ _ [A] _ When [D] it [Bm] rained five days and the [Dm] skies turned dark [E] as night
_ [C#] _
_ _ _ _ [E] Then trouble's taken _ [B] place in the [F#m] lowlands at night
[Em] _ _ [F#] _ _ _
_ [E] I woke up this [B] morning, can't [E] even get out of [F#] my bed
[F#m] _
_ [E] I [A] _ _ _ _
[Bm] woke up this morning, can't even get out of my [E] door _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ That's enough trouble to make [Bm] a poor girl [E] wonder where she wanna go
_ _ _ _ _ [F#m] _
_ [E] Then they [A] rode [F#] a little boat about _ [B] five miles across [A] the [E] pond _
_ _ _ [Em] _ _ Then [D] they [Bm] rode a little boat about [D] _ [B] five miles across [E] the pond
I [F#] _ _
_ _ [F#] _ [E] packed all my [F#m] clothes, sold them in and they rode me along
_ [E] _ _ _ _ _
When it [Em] thunders and lightning [D] and the wind begins to [A] blow
_ When _ _ _ [G] _ [D] it thunders and lightning and the wind begins to [A]
blow
_ _ [F] _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ [E] There's thousands of [C#] people, [E] ain't got [F#] no place to go _ _
[A] _ _ [E] _ Then I [A] went _ and stood [E] up on some high old lonesome hill
[C#m] _ Then _ [A] _ _
_ [D] I _ [Am] went and stood up on some high old lonesome [A] _ hill
_ _ _ [B] _ [C#] _ Then [Bm] looked down [E] on the [F] house where [E] I used to [C#] live
_ _ [E] _ _
_ _ [A] Packed what I blew, _ doesn't cause me to [E] pack my things [Em] and go
_ Packed _ _ [F#m] _ _
[D] what I blew, doesn't cause me to pack my things [A] and go
[C#m] _ _ _
_ _ _ [E] Cause my [B] house fell [E] down and I [F#] can't live there [A] no more
_ [D#] _ _ [E] _ _ _
[E] _ _ Mmm, _ _ [C#] _
[E] I can't [A] move no more
[C#m] _ _
_ [Em] _ _ _ _ [D] _ [Dm] Mmm, _ _ _ I [C#] can't [E] move no more
_ _ [Am] _ _ [G#] _
_ [Bm] There ain't no [E] place [B] for a [E] poor old girl [A] to go _ _
_ [D] _ _ [E] _ [A] _ _ _ [B] _