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  13 <h1 class="songtitle">High Water (For Charlie Patton)</h1>
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  16 <p>Words and music Bob Dylan<br />
  17 Released on <a class="recordlink" href="index.htm">Love And Theft</a> (2001) and
  18 in a live version on <a class="recordlink"
  19 href="../46_bs8/index.htm">Tell Tale Signs</a> (2008)<br />
  20 Tabbed by Eyolf &Oslash;strem</p>
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  24 <pre class="tab">
  25          G                         F5  F#5   G                        (C)
  26  .       :   .   .   .     :   .   .   .     :   .   .   .     :   .   .   .   .
  27 -------|-------3-/(7)7---|-----------------|-3---------------|----------------|
  28 -------|-------3-/(8)8---|*----------------|-3--------------*|----------------|
  29 -------|-------4-/(7)7---|-----------------|-4---------------|----------------|
  30 -3h0---|-5---------------|-----------------|-5----(3-5)------|----------------|
  31 ----1b-|-5---------------|*--------3---4---|-5--------------*|----------------|
  32 -------|-3---------------|---------1---2---|-3---------------|----------------|
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  36 G
  37 High water rising, rising night and day
  38
  39 All the gold and silver are being stolen away
  40
  41 Big Joe Turner looking east and west from the dark room of his mind
  42
  43 He made it to Kansas City, Twelfth Street and Vine *)
  44 F5      F#5      G
  45 Nothing standing there
  46      F5    F#5  G
  47 High water everywhere
  48
  49 High water rising, the shacks are sliding down
  50 Folks lose their possessions and folks are leaving town
  51 Bertha Mae she shook it, broke it, and she hung it on the wall
  52 Say: &quot;You dancin' with whom they tell you to, or you don't dance at all&quot;
  53 It's tough out there
  54 High water everywhere
  55
  56 I got a craving love for blazing speed, got a hopped up Mustang Ford
  57 Jump into the wagon, Love, throw your panties on the board
  58 I can write you poems, make a strong man lose his mind
  59 I'm no pig without a wig I hope you treat me kind
  60 Things are breaking up out there
  61 High water everywhere
  62
  63 High water rising, six inches 'bove my head
  64 Coffins dropping in the street, like balloons made out of lead
  65 Water poured into Vicksburg, don't know what I'm gonna do
  66 &quot;Don't reach out for me,&quot; she said, &quot;Can't you see I'm drowning too&quot;
  67 It's rough out there
  68 High water everywhere
  69
  70 Well, George Lewes told the Englishman, the Italian and the Jew,
  71 &quot;You can't open up your mind, boys, to any conceivable point of view,
  72 They got Charles Darwin trapped out there on Highway 5&quot;
  73 Judge says to the High Sheriff, &quot;I want him dead or alive,
  74 Either one, I don't care&quot;
  75 High water everywhere
  76
  77 Well, the cuckoo is a pretty bird, she warbles as she flies **)
  78 I'm preaching the word of God, I'm putting out your eyes
  79 I asked fat Nancy for something t' eat, she said, &quot;Take it off the shelf
  80 As great as you are, man, you'll never be greater than yourself.&quot;
  81 I told her I didn't really care
  82 High water everywhere
  83
  84 I'm gettin' up in the morning, I believe I'll dust my broom
  85 Keeping away from the women, I'm giving them lots of room
  86 Thunder rollin' over Clarksdale, everything a-lookin' blue
  87 I just can't be happy, love, unless you're happy too
  88 It's bad out there
  89 High water everywhere.
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  92
  93 <p>*) As has been pointed out by jokerman on r.m.d., there is no such
  94 intersection in Kansas. However, as Matt Groneman has pointed out in
  95 an e-mail, this</p>
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  97 <p class="quote">
  98 is irrelevant because Kansas City is in Missouri. Kansas City, Kansas
  99 is a suburb of Kansas City, Missouri. 12th Street and Vine, also
 100 referenced in the R&amp;B standard Kansas City made famous by Wilbert
 101 Harrison among others, is a historic jazz and blues landmark. Big Joe
 102 Turner, Count Basie and others made themselves famous in the Kansas
 103 City scene. 56th and Wabasha is also in Kansas City, Missouri, within
 104 walking distance from the Kansas border.
 105 </p>
 106 <p>**) This is of course a reference to <a href="../00_misc/cuckoo_is_a_pretty_bird.htm">Cuckoo Is A Pretty Bird</a>, sung by Bob Dylan at the second Gaslight show (oct 1962).
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