Backwater

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Down at Backwater junction


Rolling down the line


In the dark early morning


I heard the one-forty-nine


I was walking down the highway


Needed somewhere to go


A lady laid beside me


And she invited me home


She led me cold, tired and hungry


Down the backwater road


In a house on the corner


looking over the track


I woke up with a fever


And a pain in my back


She was lying there beside me


My fever started to grow


Had a funny feeling


But the lady said no


The lover needs a doctor


Down the Backwater Road


Whatcha' lookin' for


Whatcha' lookin' for


Lady do you know whatcha' lookin' for


Was I wrong to play along


Lady was I right or lady was I wrong


Backwater doctor


You've got me breathing in time


It's ten-thirty in the morning


And I'm feeling alright


I went back to my lady


But I wasn't to know


Lady left this morning


And she's not coming home


I was cold when she left me


Down the Backwater Road