Chords for Dinah Washington - Back Water Blues

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_ _ _ [Bb] When it [D] rains five days _ [Eb] _
[G] and the [C] skies [Bb] turn dark as night
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[F] _ _ _ _ [Eb] Rains five days and _
[Eb] the skies [Bb] turn [Eb] dark as night
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[G] _ _ _ [Cm] then [D] troubles
_ [F] Taking place and [A] you know everything [Bb] ain't right _
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[F] _ _ [Bb] Well up this morning
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Couldn't even get out [Bb] of my door
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[Ab] _ When [G] I this morning _ _ _
Get [B] out of my door _
[Bb] _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _
_ [C] There was enough trouble to make a [Bb] poor girl
[Bb] _ _ [Eb] Wonder where she [Bb] ought to go _ _
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[G] _ _ [Bb] Hey _ _
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[C] _ miles [Bb] cross the pond _
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[Eb] Then they _ _ _
_ _ _ My files cross the pond packed _ _ [Bbm] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ all my clothes throw [F] them in
[A] They [F] _ rolled me [Bb] right along _
[G] _ _ [C] _ _ [Eb] _ _
_ [D] _ _ [Bb] _ Thunders and lightnings
_ _ [G] And _ begins [Bb] to blow
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Can't you [D] hear the thunder?
[Eb] _ Can't you hear the lightning?
_ _ Can't you hear [Em] the wind [Bb] beginning to blow? _ _
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[G] Makes you think [C] about all them [E] people
That [F] _ ain't got no
No [Bb] place to go _
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_ _ _ [Bb] _ [Bb] Yeah
_ _ _ [Eb] _ Yes
I [Bbm] stood on a lonesome hill _
[Bb] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
_ _ [G] Then I went
_ _ Stood on a high _ _ _ lonesome hill _
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[G] _ _ [E] I looked down with tears in my [A] eyes on the house [C] where I [Bb] used to live
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_ [Bb] That's why [Gm] the blues done called me things [Eb] _ _ _
_ _ [Gm] and go _
_ _ [F] That's _ _ why the blues [Eb] done called me and _ _ _ _ _
_ [Bb] _ _ _ go
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[G] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ [F] _ And I _ live [Bb] there no more
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[F] _ _ [Bbm] Mmm, _ [Dm] _
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poor [Bb] girl like me to go
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_ Can't you see I'm tired?
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Feel like no _ more _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [G] If I ever [C] _
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[F] [B] be a mean so and [Bb] so
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