High Water (For Charley Patton) - Bob Dylan

High Water (For Charley Patton) LRC歌词

[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

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[00:24.18]Big Joe turner looking east and west from the dark room of his mind

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[00:29.10]He made it to Kansas city, twelfth street and vine

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[00:33.81]Nothin' standing there

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[00:37.99]High water everywhere

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[00:44.11]High water rising the shacks are sliding down

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[00:48.45]Folks lose their possessions, the folks are leaving town

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[00:52.24]Reformation shook it, broke it, then she hung it on the wall

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[00:56.87]Say you dancin' with whom they tell you to or you don't dance at all

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[01:01.84]It's tough out there

[01:06.61]High water everywhere

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[01:11.55]I got a craven love for blazin' speed

[01:14.00]I got a hopped up mustang ford

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[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

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[01:25.35]I'm no pig without a wig, I hope you treat me kind

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[01:29.63]Things are breakin' up out there

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[01:34.45]High water everywhere

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[01:40.50]High water rising, six inches above my head

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[01:44.38]Coffins droppin' in the street like balloons made out of lead

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[01:48.91]Water poured into vicksburg, don't know what I'm gonna do

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[01:53.50]Don't reach out for me, she said, can't you see I'm drowning too

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[01:57.87]It's rough out there

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[02:02.18]High water everywhere

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[02:07.45]Well, George Lewes told the Englishman, the Italian and the Jew

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[02:12.21]You can't open up your mind, boys, to every conceivable point of view

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[02:16.75]They got Charles Darwin trapped out there on highway 5

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[02:21.36]Judge says to the high sheriff, I want them dead or alive

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[02:25.77]Either one, I don't care

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[02:29.79]High water everywhere

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[02:35.16]Well, the cuckoo is a pretty bird, she warbles as she flies

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[02:40.15]I'm preachin' the word of god, I'm puttin' out your eyes

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[02:44.48]I asked fat Nancy for someth'n' to eat, she said take it off the shelf

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[02:48.85]As great as you are man, you'll never be greater than yourself

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[02:53.11]I told her I didn't really care

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[02:57.59]High water everywhere

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[03:03.30]I get up in the mornin', I believe I'll dust my broom

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[03:07.96]Keepin' away from the women, I'm givin' them lots of room

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[03:12.32]Thunder rollin' over clarksdale, everythin' a-lookin' blue

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[03:16.79]I just can't be happy, love, unless you're happy too

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[03:21.15]It's bad out there

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[03:25.20]High water everywhere

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