[00:16.22]High water risin', rising night and day
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[00:20.22]All the gold and silver are being stolen away
[00:23.61]
[00:24.18]Big Joe turner looking east and west from the dark room of his mind
[00:28.56]
[00:29.10]He made it to Kansas city, twelfth street and vine
[00:33.26]
[00:33.81]Nothin' standing there
[00:35.94]
[00:37.99]High water everywhere
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[00:44.11]High water rising the shacks are sliding down
[00:47.86]
[00:48.45]Folks lose their possessions, the folks are leaving town
[00:51.88]
[00:52.24]Reformation shook it, broke it, then she hung it on the wall
[00:56.70]
[00:56.87]Say you dancin' with whom they tell you to or you don't dance at all
[01:01.22]
[01:01.84]It's tough out there
[01:06.61]High water everywhere
[01:08.40]
[01:11.55]I got a craven love for blazin' speed
[01:14.00]I got a hopped up mustang ford
[01:15.93]
[01:16.38]Jump into the wagon, love
[01:17.88]Throw your panties overboard
[01:20.76]I can write you poems, make a strong man lose his mind
[01:24.87]
[01:25.35]I'm no pig without a wig, I hope you treat me kind
[01:29.16]
[01:29.63]Things are breakin' up out there
[01:31.70]
[01:34.45]High water everywhere
[01:36.43]
[01:40.50]High water rising, six inches above my head
[01:43.72]
[01:44.38]Coffins droppin' in the street like balloons made out of lead
[01:48.01]
[01:48.91]Water poured into vicksburg, don't know what I'm gonna do
[01:52.77]
[01:53.50]Don't reach out for me, she said, can't you see I'm drowning too
[01:57.12]
[01:57.87]It's rough out there
[01:59.76]
[02:02.18]High water everywhere
[02:04.93]
[02:07.45]Well, George Lewes told the Englishman, the Italian and the Jew
[02:11.69]
[02:12.21]You can't open up your mind, boys, to every conceivable point of view
[02:15.92]
[02:16.75]They got Charles Darwin trapped out there on highway 5
[02:20.73]
[02:21.36]Judge says to the high sheriff, I want them dead or alive
[02:24.84]
[02:25.77]Either one, I don't care
[02:28.38]
[02:29.79]High water everywhere
[02:32.31]
[02:35.16]Well, the cuckoo is a pretty bird, she warbles as she flies
[02:39.49]
[02:40.15]I'm preachin' the word of god, I'm puttin' out your eyes
[02:43.68]
[02:44.48]I asked fat Nancy for someth'n' to eat, she said take it off the shelf
[02:48.22]
[02:48.85]As great as you are man, you'll never be greater than yourself
[02:52.48]
[02:53.11]I told her I didn't really care
[02:55.54]
[02:57.59]High water everywhere
[03:00.03]
[03:03.30]I get up in the mornin', I believe I'll dust my broom
[03:07.28]
[03:07.96]Keepin' away from the women, I'm givin' them lots of room
[03:11.47]
[03:12.32]Thunder rollin' over clarksdale, everythin' a-lookin' blue
[03:16.13]
[03:16.79]I just can't be happy, love, unless you're happy too
[03:20.68]
[03:21.15]It's bad out there
[03:23.29]
[03:25.20]High water everywhere
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