Bessie Smith
muddy water a mississippi moan
Dixie moonlight, Swanee shore
Headed homebound just once more
To my Mississippi Delta home
Southland have that grand garden spot
Although you believe or not
I hear those breeze a-whispering
Come
on
back
to
me
Muddy water 'round my feet
Muddy water in the street
No God don't shelter
Down on the delta
Muddy water in my shoes
Reeling and rocking to them lowdown blues
They live in ease and comfort down there
I do declare
Been away a year today
To wander and roam
I don't care, it's muddy there
But this is my home
Got my toes turned Dixie way
'Round the delta, let me lay
My heart cries out for muddy water
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- Miscellaneous
- Nothing but the Blues: Bessie Smith
- The Gold Collection: 40 Classic Performances
- Greatest Hits
- The Quintessence: The Empress 1923-1933
- Downhearted Blues (Original 1923-1924 Recordings)
- Charly Blues Masterworks, Volume 31: Empress of the Blues
- The Essence of Bessie Smith (disc 1)
- An Introduction to Bessie Smith: Her Best Recordings...
- The Chronological Classics: Bessie Smith 1923-1924
- The Chronological Classics: Bessie Smith 1928-1929
- Queen of the Blues, Volume 1
- The Anthology
- Midnite Jazz & Blues: Empress of the Blues
- The Complete Recordings, Volume 4
- The Undisputed Queen of the Blues, Volume 1
- Squeeze Me
- The Complete Recordings, Volume 1
- The Ultimate Jazz Archive
- The Complete Recordings Vol. 4