Bonna Rue - Kokomo Arnold, Dexter Gordon Quintet

I woke up this morning, I couldn’t even get out of my door

Said this wild water got me covered, and I ain’t got no place to go

Now I hear my mama crying, but I just can’t help myself

Now this wild water keep on rising, I got to get help from someone else

Now good morning Mr wild water, why did you stop in my front door

Says you reaches from Cairo, clean down to the Gulf of Mexico

Now don’t you hear your mother crying, weeping and moaning all night long

Because old man wild water done been here, took her best friends and gone

Now look a‑here Mr wild water, why do you treat me so doggone mean

Says you took my house out of Cairo, carried it down in New Orleans