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Backwater rising, Southern peoples can't make no time |
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I said, backwater rising, Southern peoples can't make no time |
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And I can't get no hearing from that Memphis girl of mine |
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Water in Arkansas, people screaming in Tennessee |
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Oh, people screaming in Tennessee |
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If I don't leave Memphis, backwater spill all over poor me |
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People, since its raining, it has been for nights and days |
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People, since its raining, has been for nights and days |
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Thousands people stands on the hill, looking down were they used to stay |
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Children stand there screaming: mama, we ain't got no home |
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Oh, mama we ain't got no home |
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Papa says to the children, "Backwater left us all alone" |
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Backwater rising, come in my windows and door |
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The backwater rising, come in my windows and door |
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I leave with a prayer in my heart, backwater won't rise no more |
