Backwater Blues Chords by Bill Broonzy

[C] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [B] _
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[G] _ _ _ It [C] rained _ five days _ [Cm] and the clouds turned as dark as night.
[C] _ _ _ _ _
_ [F] _ Yes, it [Fm] rained five [F] days and the clouds turned [C] as dark as night. _ _ _ _ _ _
A [G] lot of trouble taking place, _ [F] Lord, in the [C] lowland that _ _ _ _ _ _ night.
I got up _ one morning, poor [F] me, I couldn't even get [C] out of my door. _ _ _ _ _ _
[F] _ Yes, I got up one morning, _ poor [B] me, I couldn't even get out of my door.
_ _ [C] _ _ _ Saw a [Gm] thousand, thousand, thousand poor people out of clouds, didn't have no place [C] to go. _ _ _ _ _ _
Then I went _ and I stood _ [F] up on a [B] high, [Cm] high, lonesome hill.
[B] _ _ [C] _ _ _
Yes, I [F] went and I stood up on a high, [B] high, lonesome hill.
_ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ [G]
Lord, and all I could do was look down, leave on the [F] house where [C] I used to live.
[F] _ _ [C] _ _
Then it thundered [B] and it lightning, _ [C] _
[B] Lord, and the wind began to blow.
_ [C] _ _
_ _ _ Yes, [B] it thundered and it [Cm] lightning, _ [F] Lord, [B] and the wind began to blow.
_ [C] _ _ _ _ _
Saw a thousand, thousand, thousand of my poor people at that time, they didn't have no place to go. _
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