High Water Everywhere Lyrics - You & Me - Joe Bonamassa

The song was originally done by Delta Bluesman Charley Patton. Not sure if JB used them exactly, but I found two versions. Have at it . . . 

High Water Everywhere Part I 

Well, backwater done rose all around 

Sumner now, drove me down the line 

Backwater done rose at Sumner, 

drove poor Charley down the line 

Lord, I'll tell the world the water, 

done crept through this town 

Lord, the whole round country, 

Lord, river has overflowed 

Lord, the whole round country, 

man, is overflowed 

You know I can't stay here, 

I'll go where it's high, boy 

I would goto the hilly country, 

but, they got me barred 

Now, look-a here now at 

Leland 

river was risin' high 

Look-a here boys around Leland tell me, 

river was raisin' high 

Boy, it's risin' over there, yeah 

I'm gonna move to 

Greenville 

fore I leave, goodbye 

Look-a here the water now, Lordy, 

Levee 

broke, rose most everywhere 

The water at Greenville and Leland, 

Lord, it done rose everywhere 

Boy, you can't never stay here 

I would go down to 

Rosedale 

but, they tell me there's water there 

Now, the water now, mama, 

done took Charley's town 

Well, they tell me the water, 

done took Charley's town 

Boy, I'm goin' to 

Vicksburg 

Well, I'm goin' to Vicksburg, 

for that high of mine 

I am goin' up that water, 

where lands don't never flow 

Well, I'm goin' over the hill where, 

water, oh don't ever flow 

Boy, hit Sharkey County and everything was down in Stovall 

But, that whole county was leavin', 

over that 

Tallahatchie 

shore 

Boy, went to Tallahatchie and got it over there 

Lord, the water done rushed all over, 

down old Jackson road 

Lord, the water done raised, 

over the Jackson road 

Boy, it starched my clothes 

I'm goin' back to the hilly country, 

won't be worried no more 

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High water everywhere (Part 2) 

written by: Charley Patton 

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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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