Martin Scorsese Best of the Blues movie - Muddy Water (A Mississippi Moan) lyrics

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Song by Bessie Smith<br /><br>

Dixie moonlight, Swanee shore<br>

Headed homebound just once more<br>

To my Mississippi delta home<br>

Southland has that grand garden spot<br>

Although you believe or not<br>

I hear those breeze a-whispering:<br>

"Come on back to me"<br>

Muddy water 'round my feet<br>

Muddy water in the street<br>

Just God don't shelter<br>

Down on the delta<br>

Muddy water in my shoes<br>

Reeling and rocking to them lowdown blues<br>

They live in ease and comfort down there<br>

I do declare<br>

Been away a year today<br>

To wander and roam<br>

I don't care it's muddy there<br>

But see it is my home<br>

Got my toes turned Dixie way<br>

'Round the delta let me lay<br>

My heart cries out for muddy water<br>

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