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[Verse 1]
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Down the Backwater junction rolling down the line
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In the dark early morning I heard the one-forty-nine
      D
I was walking down the highway, needed somewhere to go
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A lady laid beside me and she invited me home
            G                      D                  A
She left me cold, tired and hungry down the backwater road

[Verse 2]
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In a house on the corner looking over the track
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I woke up with a fever and a pain in my back
        D
She was laying there beside me, my fever started to grow
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I had a funny feeling but the lady said no
    G                    D                  A
The lover needs a doctor down the Backwater Road
          G N.C.               D N.C.             A
Yeah, the lover needs a doctor down the Backwater Road
                    C                        D
(Down the backwater road, down the backwater road)
                   A
Down the backwater road
                    C                        D
(Down the backwater road, down the backwater road)
N.C.                       A
  Yeah, down the backwater road

[Bridge]
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Whatcha lookin' for, whatcha lookin' for
G                          D
Lady do you know what cha' lookin' for
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Was I wrong to play along?
G                        D
Lady was I right or lady was I wrong?
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Whatcha lookin' for, whatcha lookin' for
G                          D
Lady do you know what cha' lookin' for
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Was I wrong to play along?
G                        D      N.C.
Lady was I right or lady was I wrong?

[Interlude]
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[Verse 3]
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Backwater doctor, you've got me breathing in time
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It's ten-thirty in the morning and I'm feeling alright
       D
I went back to my lady but I wasn't to know
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Lady left this morning and she's not coming home
      G                     D                  A
I was cold when she left me down the Backwater Road
      G N.C.                D N.C.             A
I was cold when she left me down the Backwater Road
                    C                        D
(Down the backwater road, down the backwater road)
                    A
Yeah, the backwater road
                    C                        D
(Down the backwater road, down the backwater road)
                         A
Yeah, down the backwater road
                    C                        D    N.C.
(Down the backwater road, down the backwater road)
         C         A      G    D
Down the backwater road, yeah, yeah
F                        A      G    D
Yeah, down the backwater road, yeah, yeah
F                   A      G     D
 Down the backwater road, yeah, yeah
F                    A      G     D
 Yeah, the backwater road, yeah, yeah
F                   A      G    D
 Down the backwater road, yeah,
F                   A
 Down the backwater road

[Outro]
C   D   F                        A
        Yeah, down the backwater road