"Backwater Blues"
by K.C. Compton ©2005
Dedicated to the victims of Hurricane Katrina
Chorus:
If I could just get out of this shelter, I know I could find me a home.
If I could just get out of this shelter, I know I could find me a home.
Days have turned into months here, I can't keep going along.
If I could just get out of this shelter, I know I could find me a home.
I had a little house in Biloxi just down the street from my mom.
I worked two jobs for years and years just to have a place of my own.
When the rain started falling, we were cozy and warm.
By the time those dark waters stopped rising, my mama was lost in the storm.
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We're sleeping with seventy strangers, my kids can't tell night from day.
How can you call it a childhood when there ain't anyplace they can play?
I know that I ain't perfect. but I'm a citizen just like you.
I know I've had my failures, but what did my kids ever do?
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Got a letter from the gov'ment, the one I paid taxes to.
Seems they've run out of money. What the hell am I going to do?
You listen to my sad story, you'd like to help but don't have the time.
You might want to think that over, you might be next in line.
Chorus:
If I could just get out of this city, I know I could find me a home.
If I could just get out of this city, I know I could find me a home.
Months have turned into years here, I can't keep going along.
If I could just get out of this city, I know I could find me a home.