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Tupelo (Aka Backwater Blues)
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John Lee Hooker
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Did you read about the flood?
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Happened long time ago
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In Tupelo, Mississippi
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There were thousands of lives
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Destroyed
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It rained, it rained
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Both night and day
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The poor people was worried
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Didn't have no place to go
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Could hear many people cryin' "Lord, have mercy
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'Cause You're the only one that we can turn to"
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Happened a long time ago
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A little town
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Way back in Mississippi
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In Tupelo
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There was women and there was children
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They were screamin' and cryin'
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Cryin', "Lord, have mercy
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You're the only one now that we can turn to"
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Way back down in Mississippi, a little country town
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I know you read about it
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'Cause I'll never forget it
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The mighty flood in Tupelo, Mississippi
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Been years ago
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Lord, have mercy
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Wasn't that a mighty time?
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Tupelo's gone
John Lee Hooker - "Tupelo Blues" (1993)
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